Getty Apocalypse (3 results)

Quarter-Leather. Condition: Like New. Getty Apocalypse (illustrator). The best of the English school of the mid-13th century, and an exceptional artistic achievement. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies produced by The Folio Society. Quarter-bound in Wassa Goatskin with vegetable parchment sides; Printed and blocked in four foils with a design by David Eccles; Printed on Furioso paper with gilded and shuffled page edges; Ribbon marker; 92 pages with 82 miniatures; Book size: 12¾" x 9"; Commentary volume: Bound in buckram; 136 pages; Presented in a buckram-bound solander box.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. London, The Folio Society, 2011 (facsimile edition, first thus). Folio, 41 leaves of full-colour facsimile illuminated manuscript (in Latin) with 82 fantastical miniatures plus a statement of limitation printed on the recto of the rear free endpaper. Hand-bound by Smith Settle in quarter 'Nigerian goatskin leather with vegetable parchment sides, blocked with a design by David Eccles'; all edges gilt; a fine copy in the fine publisher's cloth-bound clamshell case, lettered in gilt and black on the spine. A lavish facsimile edition, reproducing a 13th century illuminated manuscript of the 'Book of Revelations' (MS Ludwig III 1) in the J. Paul Getty Museum. This is number 531 of 1000 copies for sale to members of the Folio Society (a further 20 lettered copies, not for sale, were also produced). Complete with the companion volume by Nigel J. Morgan, 'The Getty Apocalypse Commentary', containing translations of St John's text and commentary by Berengaudus, a codicological description and contextual essays (folio, cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, 136 pages plus 22 pages of plates; tiny light mark to the leading edge; essentially, a fine copy).

2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 80 miniatures in coloured facsimiles heightened with gilt; pictorial boards, burgundy morocco back blocked in gilt, gilt edges, silm marker, Commentary volume bound in burgundy cloth, the two volumes housed in publisher's solander case blocked and lettered in gilt and black, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES.