Hardcover
1974
by Meiss, Millard
George Braziller / The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1974. Hardcover. Good. cloth covers have light sunning to edges. pastedowns & flyleafs foxed. pg edges have instances of light foxing. black scuffs/shelf-wear to lower textblocks. dustjackets scuffed & scratched w/ tears to edges.. 2 vols. Aqua cloth with gilt letters on spines and gilt decoration on front covers, white & color illus. dust jackets, 533 pp. in text vol.; 898 BW and color plates on pages in plates vol. A complete two-volume set. "Is concerned with the period 1400-1425 when the passion of French painters and their patrons for pictures in books led to one of the high points in the history of the illuminated manuscript." (dj) One volume contains the text and the other contains the plates. A nice set. (Only the text volume is pictured here.) [1] Text volume -- [2] Plate volume.
(Inventory #: 156969)