The Illuminated Book: It's History and Production
by David Diringer
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Philosphical Library, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Illumination: Medieval illuminators (or' miniators'). What is book-illumination? Book-illumination and book-illustration. Elements which influenced book-illumination. Book-painting, compared with panel-painting", and over 500 more pages of everything you wanted to know about illuminated books. Book in near fine condition, with slight fading to edges, internally flawless, with over250 illustrations and plates, in very good + jacket with minor wear to extremities, and small tape repairs to verso. Sound and square, which is exceptional for such a heavy book.
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- Bookseller
- Oshtemo Book Sellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000586
- Title
- The Illuminated Book: It's History and Production
- Author
- David Diringer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Philosphical Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Pages
- 524
- Keywords
- Books on Books. First edition
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...