Writing and the Manuscript Book - Illumination of books and manuscripts

Lot Comprises:

Marguerite A. Keane, Finished by Hand: Decoration in Fifteenth‐Century Printed Books, [Williamstown], Chapin Library, Williams College, 1995, 4to., publisher's printed paper wrappers

Erardo Aeschlimann, Dictionnaire des miniaturistes du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance dans les differentes contrées de l'Europe, Milan, 1940, fol., red cloth

J. J. G. Alexander, Italian Renaissance Illuminations, New York: Braziller, 1977, fol., publisher's printed wrappers

J. J. G. Alexander, Medieval illuminators and their methods of work, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1992, fol., publisher's green cloth, dust jacket

J. J. G. Alexander, ed., The Painted Page, Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450‐1550, Munich, Prestel Verlag, 1994, publisher's printed wrappers

Illuminated manuscripts: medieval hunting scenes: ("The Hunting Book" by Gaston Phoebus): text by Gabriel Bise after Gaston Phoebus; translated by J. Peter Tallon, Fribourg-Geneva, Miller Graphics, 1978, fol., publisher's white simulated cloth, dust jacket

Maria Grazia Ciardi Dupré dal Poggetto & Marco Assirelli, et al., I libri miniati di età romanica e gotica (Biblioteca del Sacro Convento di Assisi, 1), Assisi, Casa editrice francescana, 1988, publisher's printed grey cloth

Christopher De Hamel, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, Boston, 1986, fol., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket

Léopold Delisle, Fac‐simile de Livres copiés et enluminés pour le roi Charles V (Souvenir de la journée de 8 mars 1903, offert à ses amis par Léopold Delisle), [Paris], 1903, fol., publisher's printed paper vellum wrappers

David Diringer, The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production, London, 1958, 4to., publisher's blue cloth, bookplate "HR et amicorum" [bookseller Herbert Reichner?]

John A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts, (London, 1911), reprint New York, 1969, 4to., publisher's ecru cloth

Emma Pirani, Gothic Illuminated Manuscripts, Milan, 1970, 8vo., publisher's grey cloth, dust jacket

Lucian N. Valentine, Ornament in Medieval Manuscripts: A Glossary, London, 1964, 8vo., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

Dorothy Miner, ed., Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Baltimore, 1949, fol., publisher's blue boards backed by blue simulated leather

Ingo F. Walther & Norbert Wolf, Codices Illustres: The World's Most Famous Illuminated Manuscripts 400 to 1600, Cologne, London & New York, Taschen, 2001, fol., publisher's printed boards, glassine dust jacket

Kurt Weitzmann, Studies in Classical and Byzantine Manuscript Illumination, Chicago & London, 1971, 4to., publisher's brown cloth, dust jacket

Kurt Weitzmann, William C. Loerke & Ernst Kitzinger & Hugo Buchthal, The Place of Book Illumination in Byzantine Art, Princeton, University Press, 1975, small fol., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

Kathleen P. Whitley, The gilded page: the history and technique of manuscript gilding, New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 2009, 8vo., publisher's paper wrappers

Sold as a group, not subject to return.