Language: English
Published by Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1932
Seller: M H Harrington, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover book, no dust wrapper; bright gilt lettered covers are bright and fine; text is fine, 5.50" x 8.25", XXII, 272 pages, subject and general index, list of plates (100 in black-and-white); light age-toning throughout; each chapter has its own bibliography.
Published by Clarendon Press, 1932
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1932. No Edition Stated. 272 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking.
Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, London, 1932
Seller: Alphaville Books, Inc., Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A clean and sound copy. Careful packing and fast, efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. International Priority Air Mail shipping available for this item.
Language: English
Published by Hacker Art Books, New York NY, 1969
Seller: Adamstown Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Oversize hardcover, 413 pp. Vol 1 is text, describing the development of illumination - Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Romanesque, Bestiaries, Gothic, Apocalypses, Early Anglian, and more. Vol. 2 contains 129 b& w plates referenced in Vol 1. Book Condition : Good, Ex-College Library; no text marks, bookplate inside front cover; pocket and slip inside rear cover; catalog label on bottom spine; a few small stains to text block.
Language: English
Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1932
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 12.45
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover , Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. xxii+272pp, 100 illus, blue cloth, gilt lettered, V.G. HARDCOVER, NO DUST JACKET, NO MARKINGS, A GOOD COPY, EXCELLENT VALUE .
US$ 11.62
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardback. Condition: Good+, sound copy. Hardback. xxii,272pp. With a preface by Tancred Borenius. Black and white frontis. and 99 further illustrations. Slightly faded to spine. Slightly bumped. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy.
Language: English
Published by Hacker Art Books, New York, 1969
Seller: Salsus Books (P.B.F.A.), Kidderminster, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
US$ 41.51
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. xx 132pp plus plates, hardback, red cloth gilt, combined issue of both vols I and Ii bound together, reprinted 1969, some removable red pencil underlining e=lse good.
Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1932
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
xxii, 272p., 100 b/w illus., errata slip bound in, original blue cloth.
US$ 25.69
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basket8vo. xxii, 272pp, frontis, double and single-sided plates. Original navy cloth gilt. A few small stains to cloth; small area of wear to bottom of front board; score mark (not breaking cloth) to rear board; very light spotting.
Hardcover. Red buckram, 132 text pp. followed by 129+ BW plates on pages. A reprint of a book first published in 1933 in two volumes, and this one merges them into one. Contains a narrative text, followed by more than 120 examples of book and manuscript illumination from the British Isles. Uncommon. G+ (Ex-art library, with i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages, incl. rear pocket; pages are aging only slightly.).
Published by Hacker Art Books 1969, 1969
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
2 VOLUMES IN 1 BOOK, ex-library, quarto, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xx + 132pp + 129 black & white plates, VG (light bruising to extrems, ligth soiling to board edges, usual library markings, light staining to page edges, 1cm closed tear to pg 123).
Published by Oxford, 1932
Seller: Books Written By (PBFA Member), Northampton, NTH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
US$ 11.07
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Navy boards with gold lettering to the spine. Slight lean to the boards and light foxing to the inside boards. Neat inscription in ink to the ffep. Pictorial clipped dust wrapper, chipping and tears along all edges and corners, now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. No further inscriptions. 272pp, clean pages with illustrations throughout. (Any digital image available on request).
Published by Hacker Art Books, New York, 1969
Seller: Liberty Book Shop, Avis, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Red cloth reprinting of 2 volume set. 132 pages text, and 129 b&w plates that follow text. Nearly new. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 132 & 129 plates pages.
Published by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS FIRST EDITION 1932, 1932
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
HB BLUE CLOTH COVERS MARKED EXTREMITIES FOXED ABOUT VERY GOOD PP272 8VO Preface by Tancrfed Borenius.
Published by Pantheon / Casa Editrice / Harcourt, Brace and Company, Florence, Italy, 1928
Hardcover. green cloth boards w/ gilt printed spine. book XX, 132 pp. 50 BW plates. top edge gilt. tan dustjacket w/ red printing. Pastedowns and endpapers smudged. Text pages lightly tanned with deeper tanning to plates. Good+ /Fair+ (boards have light scuffs & scratches. rubbing to spine ends. upper corner bumped/bruised; lower corners rubbed to boards. lower textblock has scuffs, marks. dustjacket darkened w/ a multitude of chips & tears to edges; deep tears to edges w/ curling; not presentation quality.).
Published by Hacker Art Books, New York, 1969
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. xx, 132pp, (ca. 200pp). Extensive full-page illustrations. Near fine. Exceptionally tight 'n' bright reprint edition of the 1933 2-volume clasic, here done up in single volume.
Published by Florence, Pantheon/Munich, Wolff 1928.; Folio. 2 vols: ix, 171pp; 129 collotype pls, captioned tissue guards., 1928
Seller: Bennett and Kerr Books, ABINGDON, United Kingdom
US$ 69.19
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Loose as issued, in textured board portfolios, plates laid on covers; sl worn, v.l rebacked in cloth, frayed, flaps torn & loose, v.2 spine torn.
Hardcover. Three-quarters tan leather/green cloth, black spine title block with gilt titles and decoration, raised bands. Volume 1: XX, 132 pp. 50 BW plates. Volume 2: plates 51-129 BW plates. Rare. Excellent full-page illustrations. Includes Celtic and Anglo-Saxon illumination, and the Romanesque and Gothic periods, bestiaries, the transition from Romanesque to Gothic, apocalypses, East Anglian illumination and the last phase. Also includes a bibliography, index of manuscripts and a general index. Good, ex-library, with spine and back cover labels, bookplate and a few minor notations on non-text pages. Both volumes show wear and some loss to corners, edges of leather, hinges, a few small tears. Some soiling, binding firm. Pages clean with some age-darkening at extremities. All plates present.
Language: German
Published by Firenze : Pantheon Casa Editrice, 1927/28., 1927
Seller: Versandantiquariat buch-im-speicher, Berlin, Germany
Association Member: GIAQ
Condition: Gut. 170 S. : 129 Taf. ; Je Tafel ein Trennblatt mit Kurzerläuterung. // Saubere Exemplare ohne Einträge. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 3000 4°, schwarzer Org.-Leinen mit Rückenschild.
Published by Firenze Paris : Pantheon ; Pegasus Press [1928], 1928
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
1st edition. Provenance; bookplate of Roy & Nina Merley. Good copy only in the original gilt-blocked calf over matching buckram boards. Spine bands and panel edges worn and dulled. Remains an overall tight and clean impression. Physical description; volume 1 (xx,132 pages, 50 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, facsimiles ; 32 cm. Subjects; illumination of books and manuscripts, English. Illumination of books and manuscripts Specimens, reproductions, etc. Illumination of books and manuscripts, England. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval Great Britain. "Printed in Italy. The English edition of the present work is published by the Pegasus Press, the German edition is published by the Kurt Wolff Verlag, the Spanish edition is published by the firm of Gustavo Gili and the present edition, specially bound in cloth, is issued in the United States exclusively by the David McKay Company . Philadelphia"--Vol. 1, t.p. verso. 50 phototype plates. Includes indexes. Bibliography: v. 1, p. [121]-124. 3 Kg.
Published by München, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1928
Seller: Biblio Industries Alain Haezeleer, Stuttgart, Germany
Komplett in 2 Bänden (Text und Tafelband). Mit 129 s/w Tafeln, 170 SS., Quart. Halbleinen der Zeit, mit handschriftlichen Rückenschildchen. Minimal berieben, Ecke leicht bestossen, ansonsten sehr gut erhalten, schöne Exemplare.
Published by Florence, 1928
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: very good(+). 129 hinged plates, lettered tissue guards. 2 vols. 4to, 1/2 blue leather. marbled boards. Firenze, (1928). First Edition in German. Very good(+). Chamberlin 1294, 2462. Lucas p. 81.
Published by Firenze Paris : Pantheon ; Pegasus Press [1928], 1928
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
1st edition. Provenance; bookplate of Roy & Nina Merley. Good copy only in the original gilt-blocked calf over matching buckram boards. Spine bands and panel edges worn and dulled. Remains an overall tight and clean impression. Physical description; volume 1 (xx,132 pages, 50 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, facsimiles ; 32 cm. Subjects; illumination of books and manuscripts, English. Illumination of books and manuscripts Specimens, reproductions, etc. Illumination of books and manuscripts, England. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval Great Britain. "Printed in Italy. The English edition of the present work is published by the Pegasus Press, the German edition is published by the Kurt Wolff Verlag, the Spanish edition is published by the firm of Gustavo Gili and the present edition, specially bound in cloth, is issued in the United States exclusively by the David McKay Company . Philadelphia"--Vol. 1, t.p. verso. 50 phototype plates. Includes indexes. Bibliography: v. 1, p. [121]-124. 1 Kg.
Published by Firenze ; Paris : Pantheon : Pegasus Press, 1928
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Provenance; from the library of Roy and Nina Merley with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; [78] leaves of plates : ill., facsims. ; 32 cm. Subjects; Illumination of books and manuscripts, English. 4 Kg.
Language: English
Publication Date: 2025
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
LeatheBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 334. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1928 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume v.2 Language: English Pages: 334 Volume v.2.
Language: German
Published by Florenz, Pantheon u. München, K. Wolff, 1927/, 1928
Seller: Versandantiquariat Sylvia Laue, Winterbach, Germany
First Edition
Condition: Gut. Bd 1: 170 S. Text, 50 Tafeln in Lichtdruck, Bd 2: Tafeln 51 -129, je Bl. jeweils mit transparentem Deckblatt, auf dem die wichtigsten Daten zu den Abb. gedruckt sind. ZUSTAND: Einbände mit leichten Gebrauchs/Alterungsspuren, Papier u. Schnitt etwas nachgedunkelt, Bd 1: Vorsatzseite mit Spuren v. Entfernen v. etwas Aufgeklebtem, Bd 2: obere Ecke gering angedrückt Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 4000 23 x 31 cm, gebundene Ausgabe (Leinen) Erste deutsche Ausgabe. Pantheon Edition.
Published by Pantheon, Florence /, 1928
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Green cloth, 31 cm, 2 vols, with 129 black & white plates. Includes bibliography and indexes. Top edges gilt. Very good condition but for gift inscription in ink on front free endpaper, book plates in upper right corners of front free endpapers and Vol. II rear free endpaper, and covers slightly bowed. In dustjackets in very good condition aside from some chips and tears at spines and corners and with spines slightly darkened. (2 vols.).
Published by Firenze ; Paris : Pantheon : Pegasus Press, 1928
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Provenance; from the library of Roy and Nina Merley with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; [78] leaves of plates : ill., facsims. ; 32 cm. Subjects; Illumination of books and manuscripts, English. 2 Kg.
Published by Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, -, 1933
Seller: Auca Llibres Antics / Yara Pérez Jorques, Valčncia, V, Spain
Association Member: LIBRIS
2 vol.: (78 p., 1 h., 62 láminas)(95 p., 1 h., lám. 63-129, 1 h.); 31x23 cm.- Holandesa piel con puntas. Buen estado. Ejemplar 154 / 165. Historia del Arte.