THE ILLUMINATED BIBLE ITS HISTORY AND PRODUCTION.
by DIRINGER, DAVID
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Edgewear/Chipped, Price-Clipped DJ
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. A thorough look at the history of the medieval book. Illustrated throughout the terxt with black and white plates. Chapters on ancient methods, early west-Christian, Hibern0-Saxon and Ottonian, Islamic, Hebrew, Mozarabic,Golden Age, Italy, France and Flanders, General bibliography at end. Dust jacket with two areas of paper loss at top of front panel. 524pp.. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Light Edgewear/Chipped, Price-Clipped DJ. Large Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013509
- Title
- THE ILLUMINATED BIBLE ITS HISTORY AND PRODUCTION.
- Author
- DIRINGER, DAVID
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Edgewear
- Jacket Condition
- Chipped, Price-Clipped DJ
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- Large Octavo
- Keywords
- Bible, Religion, Illuminated Books
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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