Lindisfarne Gospel, Facsimile Edition (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. cxxv 173pp hardback, green publisher's cloth gilt, ownership signature and clip from bookseller's catalogue tipped-in, gilt lettering edge tear near top of spine, small splash mark to front board, colour facsimile frontispiece with tone tissue-guard, vol. 48.

Cloth, folio, title printed in red and black, 43 cm, [iv] , 52 pp, coloured frontispiece and 2 coloured plates, 39 monochrome plates, 5 text figures, From a contemporary review: "After a short introduction and a chapter on the history of the manuscript, [Mr. Millar] describes it fully and precisely under the following heads: 1, contents, text and gloss; 2, the writing of the text and gloss; 3, the decoration. The chapter on the handwriting contains an interesting account of the scribe's devices to keep his lines within the right-hand boundary of the columns, with a page of 60 reproductions illustrating them, but the next chapter, on the decoration of the manuscript, is naturally the most important for readers of this magazine. In it, after a discussion of the styles of the miniatures and of the illuminations, particulars are given, based mainly on the results of Professor Laurie's researches, of the medium and colours used, and then a detailed description of every piece of decoration in the book, specifying the colour of every part and elucidated occasionally by diagrams.The collotype plates are of very good quality.[t]he three coloured plates do not do full justice to the originals, in which the colours are actually brighter than the reproductions would lead one to expect." Bookplate of Charles Travis Clay [Sir Charles Travis Clay, Librarian of the House of Lords, 1922-1956] on front pastedown endpaper, extremities and small area of rear board rubbed, otherwise Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. One spine lacks two narrow one inch strips, number on spine, minor interior library marks, apparently unused. ; Surtees Society; 8vo; Four volumes, two color facsimiles (one folding). **Surtees Society volumes 28, 39, 43, and 48, lcomplete in four volumes DM #1614. Binder's ticket of Andrews & Co., Bookbinders, Durham.

Faksimile: 37 x 29 cm. Kassette: 44 x 33 cm. Kommentar: 26 x 19 cm. [518]; 333; XVI, 647 Seiten. Original-Prunkband in rotem Samt mit aufgesticktem Rückentitel, Schmuckrahmen und Verzierungen aus vergoldeten und versilberten Beschlägen sowie eingesetzten farbigen Schmucksteinen in schwarzer Original-Schmuckkassette mit Plexiglasfenster. De Begleitbände Original-Leinenbände mit montiertem ledernem Rückenschild und in Original-Leinenschubern. Nummer 276 von 290 Exemplare (Gesamtauflage 1040) der Vorzugsausgabe, die mit einem getreuen Replikat des viktorianischen Originaleinbandes von 1852 ausgestattet sind. Dreisprachige Ausgabe in Englisch, Latein und Deutsch. Mit 16 farbigen Kanontafeln, 21 farbigen Kreuzteppichtafeln (eine zu Beginn des Buches und 5 je zu Beginn der Evangelien), 5 farbigen Incipitseiten (eine zu Beginn des Buches und je eine zu Beginn der Evangelien), 4 farbigen Porträts der Evangelisten und über 200 weiteren farbigen Initialen. Der zweite Begleitband mit zahlreichen farbigen und schwarz-weißen Abbildungen (zum Teil auf Tafeln). Der prachtvolle Buchschmuck vereint die Einflüsse des mediterranen und keltischen Kulturkreises auf brillante Weise mit den Spitzen insularer Buchkunst. Zu Ehren des heiligen Cuthbert entstandenes Meisterwerk der Buchkunst und zugleich das einzige komplett erhaltene Evangeliar aus dem insularen Raum. Es enthält den lateinischen Text der vier Evangelien in der Vulgata des heiligen Hieronymus, wobei jedes der Evangelien durch eine Erklärung, ein Kapitelverzeichnis und einen liturgischen Festtagskalender eingeleitet wird. Dem eigentlichen Text gehen drei Vorreden, angeführt vom Brief des Hieronymus an Papst Damasus, voraus. Kassette und Schuber leicht berieben, ansonsten tadelloses Exemplar. Sprache: deutsch, englisch und latein.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Luzern: Faksimile Verlag, 2002, Facsimile, Numbered Limited Edition. One of 290 Jewelled Bindings, this one numbered 200. Full jewelled velvet and metal binding, a faithful replica of the Victorian (1853) binding. With metalwork holding the jewelled binding of garnets, amethysts, chrysophase, citrines, a central emerald and turquoise and ruby around it. With the title in genuine hand sewn silver thread to the spine, the volume weighs over 10kg on its own. Complete with 2 additional cloth bound volumes. The first in English, a commentary by Michelle P. Brown from the British Library bound in cloth with a blue leather label. The second in German and English also by Brown. Also included is a VHS video on the Gospels by the British Library. Provenance: no signatures or bookplates. Approximately 14 ½ inches tall. The Box is approximately 17 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition. Joints very good condition. Corners very good condition. Boards very good condition metal gently and naturally tarnished. Page edges very good condition. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition strong. Paste downs very good condition leather. End papers very good condition leather. Title very good condition facsimile. Pages very good condition facsimile. Binding very good condition. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 2002 Binding: Hardback.