Limited edition of 750 numbered copies. Cloth, gilt cover device, contrasting red spine-panel, 4to, 79 pp, 78 plates (some colour). The volume "describes all the notable illuminated and textual Italian manuscripts at present contained in the collections of The Pierpont Morgan Library. .Reproductions are provided for 59 of the 103 manuscripts described." With an introduction by Bernard Berenson. Presentation copy presented by F B Adams, Jr of the Pierpont Morgan Library to Sir Sidney Cockerell, with the typed letter signed by Adams making the presentation loosely laid in, and with Cockerell's signature and date on the front free endpaper. Copy No. 205. Near Fine in a worn and used slipcase.

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Italian Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library : Descriptive Survey of the Principal Illuminated Manuscripts of the Sixth to Sixteenth Centuries, with a Selection of Important Letters and Documents.

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Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, first edition, 1953

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1953

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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