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Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR000434404
Quantity: 2 available
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # wbs2532839718
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint of the 1860 edition. Tall quarto. Color plates. Fine in fine DJ. Pages: 104 (text); plates. Seller Inventory # 400862
Seller: Books for Libraries, Inc., Santa Clarita, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very nice 1987 Hardcover book with very nice Dustjacket. Black cloth cover with bright gold lettering. Black DJ with color illustrations. No former owner's name or marks except an old pencil price. Text is clean, binding is strong. **This oversized book requires additional postage for expedited or international shipping. Please inquire before purchase! Seller Inventory # mon0000011354
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. The classic Victorian treatise on illumination and lettering from ancient times to the late Renaissance. 100 color plates. A facsimile of the 1860 Day & Son edition. First printing thus. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else fine in an about fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 24545
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 185326900X. Oversized, Heavy, Hardback. Reprint edition. First Printing Thus. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No Signature. Seller Inventory # 4200691
Seller: Object Relations IOBA PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st thus (1987). 104pp + 100 colour plates. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE copy, neat ink name on ffep verso, now preserved in archival jacket protector. Seller Inventory # 025314
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: BookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Thus. First thus. Facsimile reprint of the original 1860 publication. 104pp, followed by 100 colour plates. Illustrated endpapers. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. 4to. Cloth just a little pushed at spine tips else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Glossy, illustrated dust wrapper, shelf worn, rubbed and bumped on extreme edges, with short open nick on the lower leading corner. The classic Victorian treatise on illumination and lettering from ancient times to the late Renaissance, The Art of Illumination is beautiful volume for its colour plates alone. It is a classic pictorial reference work and a Victorian masterpiece of scholarly and practical research, with essays by M Digby Wyatt which are impressive for their range and depth, covering the historical background of manuscript illumination, practical application, and descriptions of colour palettes. Seller Inventory # 036428
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine condition in fine dust wrapper, quarto, black boards, titles in gilt down spine, 164 pages of text with decorative borders plus 94 printed recto only and unpaginated of colour plates. A republication of the first edition published by Day and Sons in London in 1860. This is a heavy book(1.6 kg net weight) and may require additional postage. [QH] [QP]. Seller Inventory # 009131
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Seller Inventory # Q-185326900x