The Art Of Illuminating As Practised In Europe From The Earliest Times Illustrated By Borders

by William Robert Tymms Matthew Digby Wyatt

$250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

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Contemporary quarter vellum and orange cloth, spine lettered gilt. Binding signed, Morley, Oxford A landmark in 19th-century colour printing, both for its technical accomplishment and for its role in preserving and transmitting the visual language of the illuminated manuscript tradition. A superb visual compendium of the European tradition of manuscript illumination, this richly illustrated work is among the finest examples of mid-Victorian chromolithography.

• Binding: Leather

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