The Description for this book, Illuminated Manuscripts of the Divine Comedy, will be forthcoming.
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Book Description Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some light edge wear and creasing, price clipped. Seller Inventory # 9999-9996411306
Book Description Condition: Good. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969. 1st edition. 2 Volume Set. 4to hardcover. Red cloth in pink dust jackets. xx+378pp, 74 plates; xxii+539pp, 16 plates. Illustrations. Good set. Good dust jackets. Minor tearing, soiling, and dampstaining to dust jackets. Pages edges foxed and slightly dampstained. (Iluminated Manuscripts, Classical Literature) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. Seller Inventory # MA06C-03451
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 2 volumes 4to (32 cm), XX, 378 pp, 130 figures on unnumbered plates; XXII, 539 pp, 16 plates in color. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly sunned and rubbed at extremities). Volume 1 serves as a catalog encompassing all important illustrated codices of the "Divine Comedy". Complementing the catalog, Volume 2 features approximately eleven hundred miniatures drawn from a more extensive material. Preceding the catalog are three essays: one on literary and critical themes by Professor Singleton, another on the nature of late medieval illustration and illumination styles by Professor Meiss, and a third on the essential iconographic aspects of miniatures by Professor Brieger. A fourth chapter, also by Brieger, summarizes the illustrations canto by canto in relation to the poem itself. In Volume 1, a section of plates provides comparative illustrations for the essays. The work is enriched with a comprehensive bibliography, as well as general and iconographic indexes. Seller Inventory # 008723
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two Volumes Qto., First editions published in 1970, and not in 1969 as printed within the book. Volume 1. The text, xx, 378 pages, plus the illustrations containing 130 figures. Volume 2, The plates xxii, 539 pages, plus 33 pages of black and white plates, followed by 16 pages of colour plates. Both volumes are clean and bright, Near Fine copies in Very Good dust jackets that have a little light wear. Images are available on request. Seller Inventory # 097629