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Published for the Wormsley Library by Maggs Bros. in co-operation with The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, London, second edition, with a supplement of subsequent acquisitions, 2007. Laminated illustrated wrappers, large 8vo, 30 cm,. xii, 303, [1] pp. 113 entries. Catalogue of an exhibition held at The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 27 January-2 May 1999. From the introduction: "The books reflect some of their collector's catholic enthusiasms. Early purchases include examples of fine printing in rich array, from incunables to modern private-press books, many on vellum, English hand-coloured aquatint books, chiefly travel and scenery, the flower of French illustrated books from Verard to Vollard, and, above all, a spectacular assemblage of fine bindings from medieval times to today...There are also splendid manuscripts, tike the magnificent Gradual from the monastery of Ottobeuren, the unique pages from the life of St. Thomas Becket, repatriated from Belgium some fifteen years ago,…
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The Wormsley Library : A Personal Selection by Sir Paul Getty, K.B.E Unknown - 2007
by Fletcher, H.G. ; Getty, Sir Paul
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- Title The Wormsley Library : A Personal Selection by Sir Paul Getty, K.B.E
- Author Fletcher, H.G. ; Getty, Sir Paul
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- Pages xii, 301 pp
- Publisher Published for the Wormsley Library by Maggs Bros. in co-operation with The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, London, second edi
- Date 2007
- ISBN 9780901953131
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London, UK: Maggs Bros, 2007. Second Edition. Soft cover. Very good +. 4to (27 x 20 cm). 303 pp. Glossy black covers with gilt titles to upper and spine. Text block tight and unmarked.
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