Includes index

Contents: vol.1. Text: pre-achaemenid, achaemenid and Parthian periods (xxx, 492p.) - vol.2. Text: Sasanian periods (xi, 493-895p.) - vol.3. Text: architecture (viii, 897-1445p.) - vol.4. Text: the ceramic artscalligraphy and epigraphy (x, 1445-1807p.) - vol.5a. Text: the art of the book (vii, 1809-1994) - vol.5b. Text: textiles (ix, 1995-2256p.) - vol.6a. Text: carpets (ix, 2257-2465p.) - vol.6b. Text: metalwork and minor arts (xi, 2465-2817p.) - vol.7. Plates (ix, 257p.) - vol.8. Plates (x, 257-554p.) - vol.9. Plates (ix, 555-811p.) - vol.10. (vii, 812-980p.) - vol.11. (981-1106p.) - vol.12. (vii, 1107-1275p.) - vol.13. (viii, 1276-1482p.) - vol.14. (xix, 2879-3205p.) - vol.15. Bibliography of pre-Islamic persian art to 1938 (v.p.) - vol.16. Bibliography of Islamic persian art to 1938 (ix, v.p.)