New York: W. W. Norton, (1966), First Edition. quarto, brown cloth in dust jacket. (x), 130 pp. W. W. Norton, Examples of fifty letters transcribed and discussed. Long, closed tear to front panel of jacket with a chip to back panel. Edges of text block lightly foxed... More
New York: October House, (1966), First American Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. xxiii, (287)pp. October House, A section devoted to palaeography includes original work by Professor B. L. Ullman, and Dr. R. W. Hunt, who writes a fascinating account of a Pliny which once belonged to the scribe Coluccio..... More
(New York): Thames and Hudson, (1990), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 144pp. Thames and Hudson, Over 1,500 entries covering a complete range of topics, from writing surfaces, materials and tools, to prominent figures in the development of calligraphy. Illumination is discussed in depth, with entries on pigments, burshes..... More
Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University, 1993, First Edition. octavo, red cloth. (iv), 135 pp. Western Michigan University, Illustrated. New. More
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1988, small octavo, pictorial wrappers. 97 pp. Bernard Quaritch, Quaritch rare book catalogue offering 92 items. Illustrated in black and white and in color. Hint of a paperclip (dent, not rust) at top of front wrapper. Fine. More
London: Bernard Quaritch, 2000, small octavo, pictorial wrappers. 86 pp. Bernard Quaritch, Quaritch rare book catalogue offering 125 items. Illustrated in color. Mild two inch fold (dent?) in front cover affecting the first 30 pages. Initials and date of receipt "3/3/00" on title page. More
Brepols, 2017, First Edition. octavo, pictorial boards. 545 pp. Brepols, The textuality and materiality of documents are an essential part of their communicative role. Medieval writing, as part of the interpersonal communication process, had to follow rules to ensure the legibility and understanding of a text and its connotations. This..... More
Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishers, 2014, First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 77 pp. Peeters Publishers, In the Middle Ages, writing conveyed far more than information. In contradistinction to the modern separation of image and text and, by implication, form and content, which was reified with the invention of printing, illuminated manuscripts..... More
(Sandpiper, 1999), Facsimile reprint. octavo, dark blue boards in dust jacket. (xx), (386) pp. (Sandpiper , A classic study in regional palaeography, Loew's essay (first published in 1914) traces the development and decline of the script that originated in the scriptorium of the Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino in the..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1998, Second, Revised and Expanded edition. Originally published in 1984. large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (112)pp. Oak Knoll Press, From the Foreword by Ewan Clayton: "Historical Scripts is a book for the historian, the Palaeographer, the calligrapher, the typographer and anyone with an..... More
London: HMSO, (1981), Second impression. quarto, wrappers. (12)pp. HMSO, With 33 signatures illustrated and catalogued. More