Jean Bourdichon les heures d'anne de bretagne: Bibliotheque Nationale - Manuscrit latin 9474. vol VI
by emile male
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/good
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Wellington, New Zealand
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About This Item
Paris: Éditions de la revue Verve, 1946. Hardcover. Good/good. Verve. Revue artistique et littéraire. Vol. IV, Nos. 14 et 15. , Paris, 1946. Hardbound folio (265 mm. x 355 mm.) with gilt lettered and decorated boards. Spine mildly faded and mild browning at small part of upper board. Former owner book plate to front fixed endpaper. 24 p. text + 30 mounted, coloured plates with separate texts + coloured frontispiece + coloured vignette. Also black and white reproductions in the text. Printed by Draeger Frères in Paris. Text in French. The entire issue is dedicated to the illuminated Bretagne Book of Hours executed by Jean Bourdichon (1457-1521), and is illustrated with 32 tipped-in color plates of his miniature paintings for this manuscript. Upper corners of pages and boards bumped, In light blue cover wrappers with gilt lettering and mounted blue and gold pictorial on front cover, 4 iluminated gilt letters on rear cover. Cover has some splits to spine with light wear at spine ends and corners.
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- Bookseller
- The Last Word (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 683
- Title
- Jean Bourdichon les heures d'anne de bretagne
- Author
- emile male
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Éditions de la revue Verve
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1946
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- 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...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Miniature
- A book that is less then 3 inches in width and ...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...