Inventions of the Middle Ages by Frugoni, Chiara - 2007

Folio Society. hardcover. Very Good. 8x1x10. VG and in slip case

The Folio Society, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good. 2009. Third Printing. 186 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated covered boards with cloth to spine. Colour illustrated plates. No slipcase. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

The Folio Society, 2007. Hardcover. Good. 2007. No Edition Remarks. 186 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Illustrated paper covered boards with black cloth spine. Gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Slipcase. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Boards have light edgewear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall.Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Slipcase has light shelf wear with minor markings to panels.

The Folio Society,, 2009. hardcover. Very Good. . Cover shows light shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

The Folio Society, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good. 2007. No Edition Remarks. 186 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Paper covered boards with a black spine strip, gilt and a red slipcase. Colour illustrations, in-text, and throughout. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Plates are bright and clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Slipcase has light edge-wear with minor marking to panels.

London: Folio Society, 2010. Fourth printing. Hard Cover. AS NEW IN SLIPCASE. Translated by William McCuaig; foreword by Adam Hart-Davis.

London: The Folio Society, 2009. Third Printing . Hard Cover with Slipcase. Fine. Translated by William McCuaig. Foreword by Adam Hart-Davis. Fine copy in a fine slipcase.

London, United Kingdom: The Folio Society, 2007. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Folio Society Edition (First Thus) With No Printing Indicated. Includes Index, Bibliographical References And List Of Illustrations. The Book Is Bound In Black Cloth Over Boards With Printed Paper Cover To The Front. Gilt Lettering To The Spine.

The Folio Society, 2010. Hard cover. Like New. A bright, fresh copy. Some light bumping to slipcase. The middle ages have often been depicted as a period in which life had few comforts. Diet and health were poor, learning was preserved only for the select few through the monasteries and even the nobility had to do without. Nonsense, says the great medieval scholar Chiara Frugoni, in this delightful examination of the many inventions we owe to the Middle Ages. This ‘backward’ period gave us printed books, spectacles, anaesthetics, pets, chequebooks, glazed windows, clocks, underwear, playing cards, the fireplace, universities and the wheelbarrow – inventions, items and ideas without which our lives would be poorer, more painful and definitely less healthy.The evidence is provided by a rich seam of medieval art and letters. Eyeglasses, for example, turn up… Read More

Folio Society, 2007T. hardcover. Very Good. Very good in very good slipcase HB Folio Society