The Stars and the Stripes: American Flag Art & History

This book is the first to show our national flag in its various incarnations through two hundred years. Based largely on the authors' incomparable collection of antique American flags, the beautiful color photographs, the superb narrative and captions trace the development of the flag's design from the first rebellious stripes, conceived in Revolutionary fervor, to the standard precision of our current fifty-star flag. With 255 plates in full color. The Mastai Collection of American flags is without parallel, the finest ever assembled. It is the result of 50 years of painstaking searching on the part of the authors, Boleslaw Mastai, and his wife, Marie-Louise D'Otrange Mastai. The richness of this book reflects their lifelong immersion in the worlds of art and antiques.