The Library of A. Chester Beatty. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts

by A. Chester Beatty

$4,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

By Eric George Millar. Many fine plates six in color . Two vols. in four all published . Large folio, cont. red morocco-backed cloth. London: Privately Printed by John Johnson at the Oxford University Press, 1927-30. A fine set and scarce. “One of the handsomest and most learned productions from the pen of a British palaeographer.”–De Ricci, p. 172. From the library of Eric H.L. Sexton, the noted collector of incunabula.

• Binding: Leather

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