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Handbook of Medieval Alphabets and Devices

Author(s):

Shaw, Sir Henry

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Very Good

Dust Jacket:

Dust Jacket Condition:

–

Dust Jacket Protection:

–

Edition:

1st Edition

Impression:

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Signature:

–

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Bernard Quaritch

Publication Year:

1853

Publication Place:

–

ISBN:

–

Book ID:

002861

Catalogue(s):

Books on Books, Book Collecting, Print and Design History ◇ History – British

£250.00

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[viii], with 36 tissue-guarded, full page, plate illustrations of medieval alphabets and devices and their uses, most in colour. Blue buckram cloth boards with blind embossed decorations and gilt lettering to spine (boards rubbed at edges, especially on corners and spine folds and tips, sunned on spine, modern endpapers). Internally some foxing mostly affecting preliminary pages only. A handsome, impressive volume. With an introductory essay giving a brief history of the development of the application of colour to written documents. Large 4to.

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