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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS.MareMagnum
The Faber Library of Illuminated Manuscripts. [Complete set]. [General Editor: Walter Oakeshott]. COMPLETE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS (SAVE ONE VOLUIME)
8 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured reproductions throughout; cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper (save The York Psalter), one or two wrappers lightly frayed at edges.. The set comprises: The Great Lambeth Bible (ed. Dodwell), 1959; The Parisian Miniaturist Honore (ed. Millar), 1959; The Rohan Book of Hours (ed. Porcher), 1959; The Benedictional of St. Ethelwold (ed. Wormald), 1959; The Vienna Genesis (ed. Wellesz), 1960; A Fifteenth Century Italian Plutarch (ed. Mitchell), 1961; The Douce Apocalypse (ed. Hassall), 1961; The York Psalter (ed. Boase), 1962. Two further volumes - The Book of Durrow (ed. Bruce-Mitford) and The Book of Kells (ed. Henry) were projected but never published in this series.
Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB136,48 €