The Faber Library of Illuminated Manuscripts. [Complete set]. [General Editor: Walter Oakeshott]. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
by ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Seller
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About This Item
Faber,, [1959-62]. 8 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured reproductions throughout; cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, a near fine set in dustwrapper, one wrapper with small loss at upper edge of front panel. 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. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49192
- Title
- The Faber Library of Illuminated Manuscripts. [Complete set]. [General Editor: Walter Oakeshott]. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
- Author
- ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber,
- Date Published
- [1959-62]
- Keywords
- palaeography, mss, manuscripts, illuminated manuscripts, faber library of illuminated manuscripts
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