CZECHOSLOVAKIA : ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS (UNESCO WORLD ART SERIES) by New York Graphic Society ; Bellew, Peter and Anton Schutz (Eds.) - 1959

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1959. Hardcover. Good Plus/Fair. NO INTERNATIONAL SALES. Book measures 19 x 13.25". Top corners gouged and bumped, bottom corners worn through to boards. Slight concave curve to elephant folio boards. Lightly soiled surfaces. Tape ghosts to front lower board and front pastedown endpaper. Dustjacket fair. Jacket has large chips, large tape repair to front panel, various sized closed tears, creases, and is lightly soiled. Gilt lettering to grey cloth spine of white boards. Red and grey lettering to front. With 32 pages of colour reproductions. Clean, bright, tight. 20 pp of text followed by bibliography, contents page and color reproductions, unpaginated. LARGE and HEAVY. Requires additional postage. Preface by Hanns Swazenski. Introduction by Jan Kvet. The twelfth publication of the Unesco World Art Series devoted to the art masterpieces of the world. Bringing the finest quality colour reproductions of masterpieces of art to the rest of the world, which have only been known to a too limited few.