Color Reproduction plates & b&w drawings; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 226 pages; 1974 Alfred A. Knopf. Oversize folio hardcover in slipcase. First edition, stated. Snugly bound in original light green silk with gilt title lettering and decorative relief to spine and pictorial gilt design to the front board. Fresh, tight copy with only a whisper of shelf evidence to the gilt at spine. Publisher s green cloth-covered slipcase with a large color reproduction of an illuminated leaf mounted to the front panel. Mild lifting of the cloth at the slipcase seam, as commonly seen, with light shelf rubbing at the corner tips. Henry s authoritative study reproduces, in folio-sized color plates, substantially all of the illuminated manuscript leaves of the celebrated Insular Gospel book, with additional enlarged details and numerous black-and-white illustrations accompanying the scholarly text. Book NF in VG+ slipcase. Oversize book will require additional charges for most shipping methods.

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Title

The Book of Kells; Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date

1974

Language

English

ISBN 10

039449475X

ISBN 13

9780394494753

Binding

Hardcover in slipcase

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good+

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