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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN CLASSICAL AND MEDIAEVAL TIMES, THEIR ART AND THEIR TECHNIQUE
by MIDDLETON, J. HENRY
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- General Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: University Press, 1892. Edges worn, Lower front corner bumped with some loss of cloth. . Spine sunned to brown. Book-plate and catalogue listing on front pastedown. Internally a clean copy. Illustrated throughout with 55 plates and text drawings. 270pp.. First Edition. Blue Cloth. General Wear/No Jacket. Imperial Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013488
- Title
- ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN CLASSICAL AND MEDIAEVAL TIMES, THEIR ART AND THEIR TECHNIQUE
- Author
- MIDDLETON, J. HENRY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - General Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1892
- Size
- Imperial Octavo
- Keywords
- Illuminated Manuscripts, Book Art
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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- Jacket
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