French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and their Contemporaries (2-volume set)
by Meiss, Millard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good. cloth covers have light sunning to edges. pastedowns & flyleafs foxed. pg edges have instances of light foxing. black scuf
- ISBN 10
- 0807607347
- ISBN 13
- 9780807607343
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
George Braziller / The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1974. Hardcover. Good. cloth covers have light sunning to edges. pastedowns & flyleafs foxed. pg edges have instances of light foxing. black scuffs/shelf-wear to lower textblocks. dustjackets scuffed & scratched w/ tears to edges.. 2 vols. Aqua cloth with gilt letters on spines and gilt decoration on front covers, white & color illus. dust jackets, 533 pp. in text vol.; 898 BW and color plates on pages in plates vol. A complete two-volume set. "Is concerned with the period 1400-1425 when the passion of French painters and their patrons for pictures in books led to one of the high points in the history of the illuminated manuscript." (dj) One volume contains the text and the other contains the plates. A nice set. (Only the text volume is pictured here.) [1] Text volume -- [2] Plate volume.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 156969
- Title
- French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and their Contemporaries (2-volume set)
- Author
- Meiss, Millard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. cloth covers have light sunning to edges. pastedowns & flyleafs foxed. pg edges have instances of light foxing. black scuf
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0807607347
- ISBN 13
- 9780807607343
- Publisher
- George Braziller / The Pierpont Morgan Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Books and Manuscripts and Printing ; Illuminated Manuscripts ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books and Manuscripts and Printing;
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...