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Cm. 24, pp. 96 di testo. Con frontespizio e 95 splendide tavole in cromolitografia. Legatura editoriale in piena tela decorata e con titoli in oro. Legatura sapientemente rastaurata, peraltro esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione. Si tratta verosimilmente della seconda edizione (di poco ridotta rispetto alla prima) di questo splendido volume dedicato alla decorazione miniata delle lettere. Seller Inventory # 41484
Title: The art of illuminating as practised in ...
Publisher: Day and Son, s.a. (seconda metà '800), London,
Binding: Hardcover
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Studio Editions January 1987 Binding: Hardcover. Seller Inventory # 121606
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). Reprint. Secaucus: Chartwell, 1987. Reprint. 4to. Cloth binding, 304 pp. including 100 color plates. A fascinating facsimile reprint of the 1860 edition with in-depth essays and examples from the 6th to the 16th century in Europe. Book and dust jacket have light shelf wear. Near fine in very good dust jacket, protected with a fresh archival-quality mylar cover. Seller Inventory # 018312
Seller: Looking for Books?, CORPUS CHRISTI, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Book is clean and tight. Book has 104 pages of texts plus 99 glossy colored page sized plates of examples. As a retired librarian, I advise you to not consider buying this for print framing. But if I was younger and had more energy, I probably would. This is very heavy and will not come down on price because of postage. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 104 pages. Seller Inventory # 9512
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
No Binding. Condition: Poor. Completely disbound copy. Boards and pages are present. No spine. Beautiful plates with titles page. Missing plates 13-19, 53, 58, 64, and 96-99. Seller Inventory # 040498
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy folio 104 + (99)pp., colour plates, Facsimile of the 1860 edition inc. 99 fine full-page colour plates. Seller Inventory # 125057
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, San Diego, NV, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Seller Inventory # Q-1851700455
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 2 Missing plates, XII No.2 and XIV No. 19. Plate XBI No.4 is upside down, and the plates are in no particular order. The boards are edge rubbed and knocked around the edges. The binding is excellent. Tanning throughout, not affecting text. No inscriptions or annotations. Tall, extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # 3371j
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Missing Books (PBFA), Great Leighs, United Kingdom
Purple cloth boards, gilt lettering within decorative cartouche to front board, no dustwrapper. 9.75ins x 6.5ins, chromolithographic title page, 96pp text followed by 95 plates (89 of which are in colour.All plates present as per the list of plates. Later replacement endpapers.No printed title page. The spine is very faded / browned - to the extent that any lettering is unreadable. Content VG, exterior P. Seller Inventory # 51680
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 31 cm. [4], 104, [2] p. All 99 plates present. llustrated t.p., half-title, colophon, and most plates printed in colors. Bound in publishers brown cloth. Original spine rebacked on modern brown cloth. Previous owner added more gilt wash to boards obsuring original cloth to boards and title imprint on boards. All edges gilt. Lacking gilt to page ends. Wear and chipping loss to title page. Foxing to text pages. Marginal dampstain to head and tail margins of text. Plates have soiling to margins, a few plate have creases. About 1/3 of the plates have blue sharpie note on the bottom margin. Plates have been mis-set when this book was rebound. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Seller Inventory # 1602170001
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
96 pp. Colored lithographic title page and 95 color plates (the last plate trimmed near the image and laid down on blank leaf). A few marginal tears neatly repaired with tissue; first leaf of text dust-soiled; lithographic title page slightly chipped at the fore-edge; binding rubbed; especially at the corners. Seller Inventory # 45656