Reading Pictures : A History of Love and Hate

xii, 338pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Slightly cocked. Pictorial endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some light chipping to edges, price unclipped. 8vo. Taking a handful of extraordinary images - photographed, painted, built, sculpted - the author explores, with delight and erudition, how each one attempts to tell a story that we, the viewer, must decipher or invent.