Queen Mary's Psalter
by SIR GEORGE WARNER
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Hay on Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1912. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. QUARTO. - Ex-library with resultant stamps etc - Bound in half maroon leather over cloth boards - Top edge of text block gilt - Covers are rubbed w/ several small marks - Corners and edges of boards bumped w/ boards exposed - Some foxing to first and final few pages - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight - Believed to date from the second decade of the 14th century and acquired by Queen Mary I in 1553, this lavishly illustrated psalter is believed to be the work of a single artist working in London and now known only as "the Queen Mary Master." The entire work is reproduced here in (monochrome) photolithographic facsimile - 92 pp. followed by 316 collotype plates pages
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- Green Ink Booksellers
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- 632566
- Title
- Queen Mary's Psalter
- Author
- SIR GEORGE WARNER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Date Published
- 1912
- Size
- No dustwrapper
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- Quarto
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- Dustwrapper
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- Gilt
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- Edges
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- Facsimile
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- Cloth
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