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ILLUMINATED ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BIBLE. COPIED FROM SELECT MSS. OF THE MIDDLE AGES
by Westwood, J[ohn] O[badiah]
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Wm. Smith, 1846.. [4],[5]-8pp. plus extra illuminated color title and 39 additional chromolithographed plates, with accompanying text leaves and tissue guards. Large quarto (33 x 26 cm). Contemporary three quarter calf, neatly rebacked in cloth with the original backstrip laid down and new endsheets, a.e.g. Extremities somewhat shelf- worn, occasional typical slight tanning and some isolated foxing to some of the text leaves, a small spot to half-title and first guard has left a faint shadow at the lower corner of the pictorial title, slight cracking at gutter between a few plates and their text leaves, otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this ambitious (and popular) work, featuring color-printed plates reproducing examples from some twenty-five manuscripts from the BM, Oxford, Trinity and other locations. The text and plates were printed by Bradbury and Evans. Westwood (1805 - 1893) published several works in the field featuring then near state-of-the-art color printed facsimiles from manuscripts, but he was also a well-known entomologist, serving in 1834 as the secretary for the newly founded Entomological Society of London. OCLC: 719584.
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- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT87916
- Title
- ILLUMINATED ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BIBLE. COPIED FROM SELECT MSS. OF THE MIDDLE AGES
- Author
- Westwood, J[ohn] O[badiah]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Wm. Smith
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1846.
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William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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About William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
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