The Art of War (Illustrated): The Complete Illuminated Edition — Ebook
The complete Art of War, painted from the first page to the last.
84 original paintings. The complete 1910 Lionel Giles translation. Every verse set in gold into the paintings themselves.
This is an illuminated edition: not a text with a few pictures, but a book in which every opening is one painting and the words live inside it, as in the illuminated manuscripts of old.
What is in this edition
- The complete text of The Art of War in Lionel Giles's classic 1910 translation: 13 chapters and 383 verses, each numbered as Giles numbered it
- 84 original paintings, one across every two-page opening
- Each chapter opens on a full painted page with its number and name
- No commentary, no notes, nothing abridged
- Full colour throughout
About the paintings
They are painted in the manner of the old masters, in bronze, black lacquer, cinnabar red and burnished gold, with light as the subject. They show the Wu of about 500 BC, with its rammed-earth walls, bronze ritual vessels and red banners, and they follow the book image by image. The verses are set in pale gold into the dark side of each painting, so the words and the image share one page.
The book
Written some five hundred years before Christ, The Art of War is the oldest surviving book on strategy, and it has been read by commanders, rivals and statesmen ever since. In thirteen short chapters Sun Tzu sets out how wars are decided before the first blow is struck: by ground and weather, by timing, by the men you can trust, by spies, and by deception. All warfare is based on deception.
Premium coated-page editions are available on the illustrator's website, agzoderot.com.
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