Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 544 pp. University of Toronto Press, What became of Erasmus’ books? The most famous scholar of his day died in peaceful prosperity and in the company of celebrated and responsible friends. His zeal for useful books was..... More
Los Altos Hills: Anderson-Lovelace / The Red Gull Press, 1996, First Edition. quarto, buckram. xvi, 256pp, 138 black & white illustrations; 20 color. Anderson-Lovelace / The Red Gull Press, In this volume the methods of codicology join those of traditional textual analysis to shed light on how the Latin classics..... More
Paris: pour la Société des Bibliophiles, 1867, octavo, printed wrappers. (ii), xliv, 318 pp. pour la Société des Bibliophiles, Preface by L. Douët-d’Arcq contains a description of the library by subject and cites many of the important manuscripts present. 832 manuscripts described. With appendices and a useful index. Includes a...... More
London: British Library, 2010, Second Edition, Revised. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 238 pp. British Library, with the addition of color plates and new information on ancient Egyptian Papyrus gilding. The Gilded Page traces the history of gilding from ancient Egypt and Babylon through Rome, the Near East, Mediæval and..... More
Evanston, IL: Block Museum of Art, 2001, First Edition. quarto, wrappers. 359pp. Block Museum of Art, This book examines attitudes toward and treatments of medieval manuscript illumination in France and England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and in early twentieth-century America. Each chapter takes as its title a word..... 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: British Library, 2010, Second Edition, Revised. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 238 pp. British Library, with the addition of color plates and new information on ancient Egyptian Papyrus gilding. The Gilded Page traces the history of gilding from ancient Egypt and Babylon through Rome, the Near East, Mediæval and Renaissance Europe..... More
(University Park): Penn State University Press, (2005), First Edition. quarto, grey cloth. (xxviii), 216pp., illustrations unpaginated. Penn State University Press, Fifteen essays written in honor of John Plummer that highlight some of the mysteries of the Index and the first book to focus exclusively on the manuscript. Iconography, the descriptive..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins/Walters Art Gallery, (1997), First Edition. large quarto, cloth. Johns Hopkins/Walters Art Gallery, Two volumes. xxxii, 352pp.; (366)pp. This two part set represents the third volume in the Walters Art Gallery catalogue of the collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. From the Preface: "The terrain encompassed by the..... More
(London): Harvey Miller Publishers, (1996), First Edition. folio, boards in dust jacket. Harvey Miller Publishers, Two volumes. Volume One: Text & Illustrations, 48, (194)pp. of illustrations in black and white and in color; Volume Two: Catalogue, (220) pp. This is the first publication to appear in the "Survey of Manuscripts..... More
New York: Hudson Hills Press, (1983), First Edition. large quarto, cloth in slipcase. xiv, 210pp. Hudson Hills Press, Published in conjunction with an exhibition held in 1984 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Pierpont Morgan Library, and The British Library. Catalogue and essays by Janet Backhouse, Mark Evans, Thomas..... More
Suffolk, Eng: D. S. Brewer, (1992), First Edition. large 8vo, cloth. 136 pp. D. S. Brewer, No fewer than twenty-three of Pepys's thirty-eight medieval manuscripts contain Middle English texts, and date from the 14th and 15th centuries. Devotional tracts and religious poetry predominate, though there is also a corpus of..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 1998, First Edition. octavo, tan boards in dust jacket. (411) pp. Reaktion Books, In Mirror in Parchment, Michael Camille presents a far-reaching analysis and critique of the use of the Luttrell Psalter illuminations as records of historical experience, examining the Psalter as part of a particular medieval..... More
New York/New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University press, (2008), First Edition. quarto, pictorial wrappers. 64 pp. Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University press, A description of the Metropolitan Museum’s collection of nearly 40 illuminations from Italian choral manuscripts. Representing the work of Gothic and Renaissance masters both celebrated and anonymous..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 296pp. Yale University Press, Imaginative, innovative, and illustrated with some of the most striking images of the Middle Ages, this book is a "history of death in miniature" as told in hundreds of tiny pictures produced..... More
Seattle: College Art Association, 1996, First Edition. quarto, red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (xii), (247)pp. College Art Association, Illuminated for Heinrich II of Hesse in 1334, this Codex differs from other secular manuscripts of the Gothic period by its lavish illumination cycle and the firm identification of its patron..... More
Leiden University Press, 2013, First Edition. large octavo, printed wrappers. 320 pp. Leiden University Press, This book comprises six essays by prominent scholars of medieval Insular manuscripts. The main emphasis is on the physical appearance of books, though writing on and in other objects is also discussed. The essays highlight..... More
New York: George Braziller, (1989), quarto, red cloth in dust jacket. 224 pp. George Braziller, This edition reproduces each of the miniatures in the Tres Riches Heures in full color and to scale. Every miniature and a selection of the decorated text pages in the Tres Riches Heures have been..... More
Cambridge: Harvard College Library, (1983), First Edition. quarto, wrappers. xv, 190pp. Harvard College Library, From the Foreword, "In order to document more fully a significant portion of the manuscripts in the Houghton Library - manuscripts in both the Manuscript Department and the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts - the..... More
(Copenhagen): Moesgard Museum, 1999, First Edition. quarto, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. 116pp. Moesgard Museum, Extensively illustrated in color. A very fine, clean copy. More
London: V & A Museum, 1980, First Edition. oblong quarto, wrappers. (x), 152pp. V & A Museum, Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, July -September, 1980. Extensively illustrated. All facets of the V & A Collection are highlighted with representative pieces of manuscript, engraved..... More
New York: Sotheby's, 11.9-10.89, large quarto, cloth. (444)pp, 308 items listed. Sotheby's, This magnificent sale has a 4pp. Foreword by Nicolas Barker followed by a 10pp. Preface by the book collector (as he liked to be addressed), Haven O' More. A fantastic [auto]biographical statement, written in the third person, ends..... More
New Haven: Yale Univ Press, 1994, First Edition. quarto, wrappers. 222pp. Yale Univ Press, In this beautiful book Jonathan Alexander surveys European manuscript illumination from the fourth to the sixteenth century. Illustrating his discussion with examples chosen from all over Europe, he discusses the social and historical context of the..... More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1997), First Edition. large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xvi), 240pp. Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The miniatures and cuttings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Robert Lehman Collection represent the major schools of illumination that flourished in Europe from the foureenth to the..... More
(Copenhagen): Moesgard Museum, 1999, First Edition. quarto, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (184)pp. Moesgard Museum, Extensively illustrated in color. A very fine, clean copy. More