[Signed] Beridze, Vakhtang. Architecture of Tao-Klardjeti (Arkhitektura Tao-Klardzheti). Tbilisi, 1981. In Russian, Georgian, and French.

[С автографом автора] Беридзе Вахтанг. Архитектура Тао-Кларджети. Место памятников Тао-Кларджети в истории грузинской архитектуры / Академия наук Грузинской ССР, Институт истории грузинского искусства им. Г. Н. Чубинашвили.
Тбилиси : Мецниереба, 1981. 340 с., 131 табл.
Твердый переплет, альбомный формат, тираж 3 000 экз., с суперобложкой.
Переплет - хорошее: чистый, минимальный износ. Суперобложка - удовлетворительное: потертости, заломы, надрывы и мелкие утраты по краям и на корешке. Блок - очень хорошее: крепкий, страницы чистые.
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[Signed by the author] Beridze, Vakhtang. Architecture of Tao-Klardjeti. The Place of the Monuments of Tao-Klardjeti in the History of Georgian Architecture / Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, G. N. Chubinashvili Institute of History of Georgian Art.
Tbilisi : Metsniereba, 1981. 340 pp., 131 plates.
Hardcover, album format, print run of 3,000 copies, original dust jacket present.
Binding good: boards clean with minimal wear. Dust jacket fair: scuffing, creases, edge tears and small losses at the spine ends. Text block very good: firm, pages are clean and crisp throughout.

A monumental and foundational academic work on medieval Georgian architecture by Academician Vakhtang Beridze (1914-2000), the preeminent Georgian art historian and long-time director of the G. N. Chubinashvili Institute. This definitive study focuses on the historical region of Tao-Klardjeti (now in northeastern Turkey), which served as the crucial cultural and monastic center of the Georgian Bagrationi dynasty from the 8th to the 11th centuries. During this period, the monasteries of Tao-Klardjeti fostered a vibrant intellectual and architectural renaissance, producing remarkable domed churches and basilicas (such as Oshki, Khakhuli, and Ishkhani) that fundamentally shaped the evolution of Georgian medieval masonry and ecclesiastical design. Beridze provides an exhaustive architectural analysis, accompanied by 131 plates of meticulous measured drawings, floor plans, and photographs of the surviving ruins. Published in a limited print run of 3,000 copies, this large-format album has become an indispensable reference for Byzantinists, Caucasologists, and architectural historians. The present copy is remarkably enhanced by the author's authentic signature in red ink on the half-title page, dated August 31, 1982, in Tbilisi. Association copies signed by Beridze are highly prized by institutional archives and collectors of Caucasian antiquities, elevating this volume from a scarce reference book to a significant artifact of Georgian art history.