The illuminated manuscript
by Backhouse, Janet
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0714819697
- ISBN 13
- 9780714819693
- Seller
-
Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
Oxford : Phaidon, 1979 4to (29 cm), 80 pp, 70 plates (28 in color). Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (small scratch to the front of dj, internally fine). Inscribed by the author to John Rowlands, his bookplate. The seventy manuscripts represented in this book, from Lindisfarne Gospels to the Diogo Homem's Atlas (mid 16th century), span almost nine hundred years of European art history. The technicalities of manuscript production are clearly explained. But it is the illuminations themselves and their variety both in style and content that are so amazing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005956
- Title
- The illuminated manuscript
- Author
- Backhouse, Janet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0714819697
- ISBN 13
- 9780714819693
- Publisher
- Phaidon
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1979
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography; Illuminated manuscripts;
Terms of Sale
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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About the Seller
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Biblio member since 2019
Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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