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4to, illustrs., orig. printed wrappers.
Mm 180x250 Brossura originale con marginale e leggera fioritura, dedica alla prima carta bianca, 72 pagine con 36 illustrazioni in nero nel testo. Libro in buone-ottime condizioni complessive, spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous splendid coloured heightened in gold; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case with mounted coloured plate. With extended introduction and bibliography.
4to, TLS review tipped-in, 8 coloured tipped-in plates, orig. cloth. The Faber Library of Illuminated Manuscripts Edited by Walter Oakeshott. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum).
First Edition, orig. cloth. This book should be of interest not only to patristic scholars concerned with the text of Cyprian, but also to all those who have to do with the problems of reconstructing an ancient text from Western manuscripts in a heavily contaminated tradition.
Folio, xxiv,294pp., coloured frontis., 174 plates, orig. cloth.
First Edition, Elephant folio, [vi],50,[2]pp., 4 coloured plates highlighted with gilt, 208 collotype facsimile plates, orig. cloth. This large facsimile of the most famous illuminated manuscript in the Bodleian Library was made possible by a substantial donation, made anonymously through the Friends of the Bodleian. Four of its pages are reproduced in full colour; Mr. W.A. Cadbury, Mr. A. Chester Beatty, Mr. C.W. Dyson Perrins, and Mr. C.H. St. John Hornby having each of them contributed the cost of the colour plate. The descriptive text has been written by Dr. M.R. James.
First Edition, 4to, ex-library, 8 tipped-in coloured plates, orig. cloth, d.w.
Sm. folio, First Edition thus, with 127 fine plates in gilt and colours; red cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in gilt, backstrip very lightly faded else a very good, clean copy in publisher's board slip-case, the latter with mounted coloured illustration (repeated from text) and mildly age-soiled.
Folio, iv, 24pp., 2 fine chromolithographed plates framed in gilt, margin tear to one leaf, orig. cloth, uncut. This account was printed for the bookseller firm of Pearson & Co. in 50 copies, it was purchased by Pierpont Morgan in ca. 1911; the MS. is now M.21 in the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Folio, [x],61,[1]pp., coloured frontis., 1 coloured plate, 183 monochrome plates, title in red and black, orig. gilt buckram, a little rubbed and stained, uncut. Reproduces all the important illustrations from this great English manuscript from the East Anglia school, dating from about 1340 A.D. The reproductions are on the scale of the original and the two fine colour plates accurately present the splendid colouring of the MS.
First edition, folio (465 x 330mm), 2 vols., in 4 (all published, 2 vols., of text each with an accompanying volume of plates), xii, [4], 145, [3]; xiv, [2], 263, [1]pp., printed on hand-made paper, coloured frontispieces, 201 plates (2 in colour, some double-page) prepared by Emery Walker, orig. buckram, gilt, uncut. A very nice set of Beatty's luxurious catalogue, prepared by Eric George Millar, curator of manuscripts at the British Museum. Beatty formed his superb collection in a mere six-year period. Beatty projected six volumes (each similarly divided into text and plates) to the series in his foreword, but these four were the only volumes issued; the last would have contained descriptions of manuscripts from the later Middle Ages.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 134 pages. Photographs and illustrations.
First Edition, 4to, 8 tipped-in coloured plates, orig. cloth. The Faber Library of Illuminated Manuscripts Edited by Walter Oakeshott. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum).
First Edition, 4to, ex-library, 8 tipped-in coloured plates, orig. cloth.
Folio, 96pp., 13 plates in colour and gold, 96 monochrome plates, orig. cloth, d.w. This celebrated manuscript of the four Gospels is among the most important and beautiful surviving from the early period of the Holy Roman Empire. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum).
4to, 40 coloured plates, orig. cloth, d.w.
4to, 40 coloured plates, orig. cloth.
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.
3 Vols., 4to, 184 plates (18 in colour), list of prices and buyers' names loosely inserted, orig. printed boards, slightly worn and faded, 155 lots. Dyson Perrins formed his collection early in the twentieth century when exceptional manuscripts of this type, though rare enough, were by no means unobtainable, and it seems unlikely that any series of quite such quality will come on the market again.
4to, signed and dated by Dr Wright, 14 plates (12 coloured and tipped-in), orig. cloth. The Faber Library of Illuminated Manuscripts Edited by Walter Oakeshott. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum).
4to, 216pp., frontis., numerous facsimiles (some coloured), orig. cloth, d.w. spine slightly faded. The de Brailes Hours is the earliest surviving independent Book of Hours, dating from about 1240.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 59 color illustrations. 44 pages of text, bibliography. 6 3/4"w x 9 1/4"h.
2 Vols., 4to, prices and buyers' names loosely inserted, 10 coloured and 87 monochrome plates, orig. printed boards, 75 lots.
Small 8vo, coloured illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.
