TOM LECKY 12 Washington Avenue (914) 478-1339 office Hastings-on-Hudson NY 10706 (914) 216-1336 mobile [email protected] riverrunbookshop.com LIST ONE illuminated manuscript reference, with a selection of books on the art of the middle ages From a Private Collection 1. ABBEY, Maj. J.R., his sale. Illuminated Manuscripts from the Celebrated Library of the Late Major J.R. Abbey. The Eleventh and Final Part. London: Sotheby’s, 19 June 1989. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color. Original printed boards, color image mounted on front cover. Fine. FIRST EDITION. The sale comprised 44 manuscripts circa 1100-1762 from the collection of Major Abbey. All lots illustrated in color. (400164) $75 2. ALEXANDER, J.J.G. Insular Manuscripts. 6th to the 9th Century. London: Harvey Miller, 1978. Folio. 380 black-and-white and color illustrations, including 8 color plates tipped-in as issued. Original cloth; original dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, and a very fine copy, virtually as issued. This is the first volume of ‘A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles,’ of which Alexander served as general editor (see also item 26). It was the first work to describe and illustrate all of the most important Insular manuscripts since E.H. Zimmerman’s ‘Corpus’ of 1916. See item 32 for Thomas H. Ohlgren’s continued study of Insular manuscripts. (400137) $300 3. AVRIL, François. Manuscript Painting at the Court of France: The Fourteenth Century (1310-1380). New York: George Braziller, 1978. 4to. Color illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. Fine. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, the eighth book in a series of large-format paperbacks featuring important Eastern and Western manuscripts. (400172) $50 4. BACKHOUSE, Janet. The Illuminated Manuscript. Oxford: Phaidon, 1979. 4to. 70 illustrations, 28 in color. Original black cloth; original pictorial dust jacket (minor age-toning). Fine in near-fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Assistant Keeper at the Department of Manuscripts in the British Library, the author surveys illumination from the Lindisfarne Gospels to a map of the New World, nearly one-thousand years later. (400182) $40 Page 2 5. BACKHOUSE, Janet. Books of Hours. London: The British Library, 1985. 8vo. Color illustrations. Original printed wrappers (a few creases). A popular general introduction to the manuscripts in the British Library. It follows the arrangement of a Book of Hours, giving the opportunity to a gain an understanding of the traditions and intentions of the creators of early manuscripts. (400167) $15 6. BACKHOUSE, Janet; D.H. TURNER; and Leslie WEBSTER, editors. The Golden Age of Anglo- Saxon Art 966-1066. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1984. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION, issued simultaneously in cloth. Two hundred treasures of pre-Norman art are described and illustrated, including the Alfred Jewel, the Benedictionals of St. Aethelwold and Archbishop Robert, the Exeter Book, and the Beowulf manuscript. (400158) $60 7. BISE, Gabriel, after Gaston PHOEBUS. Illuminated Manuscripts. Medieval Hunting Scenes (“The Hunting Book” by Gaston Phoebus). Fribourg, Geneva, Barcelona: Miller Graphics, 1978. 4to. Color illustrations. Original glazed cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Fine. FIRST EDITION. A translation, by J. Peter Tallon, of Gaston III’s so-called “Hunting-Book.” (400175) $20 8. BOLOGNA, Giulia. Illuminated Manuscripts. The Book Before Gutenberg. London: Thames and Hudson, 1988. Folio. 226 illustrations, of which 149 in color. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; original pictorial dust jacket (some light rubbing, price sticker on rear panel). FIRST EDITION, written by the Director of the Biblioteca Trivulziana, one of Europe’s most celebrated libraries. The text examines the technical history of the illuminated book (writing instruments, materials), the growth of the book trade, the evolution of writing styles, and provides a gen- eral history of the art of illumination. (400147) $60 Page 3 9. BRAND PHILIP, Lotte — CLARK, William W. ; Colin EISLER; William S. HECKSCHER; and Barbara G. LANE, editors. Tribute to Lotte Brand Philip, Art Historian and Detective. New York: Abaris Books, Inc., 1985. Folio. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. Fine. FIRST EDITION of this tribute to Lotte Brand Philip — German art historian and expert on Netherlandish art — on the occasion of her 75th birthday. Twenty-six essays celebrate Brand Philip’s contribu- tion to the study of art history, following a bibliography of her work and reminiscences. Brand Philip was one of the most notable and incisive experts on 14th- and 15th-century art to have studied under Erwin Panofsky. (400143) $50 10. BRESLAUER, Berhard H., his collection – VOELKLE, Wil- liam M. and Roger S. WIECK. The Bernard H. Breslauer Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Li- brary, 1992. Folio. Profusely llustrated in color and black-and-white. Original pictorial wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION of this catalogue, published to accompany the exhibition at The Morgan, 9 December 1992-4 April 1993. The catalogue describes 104 miniatures from B.H. Breslauer’s collection. (400174) $40 11. BRITISH LIBRARY — KREN, Thomas, editor. Essays by Janet BACKHOUSE; Mark EVANS; Thomas KREN; and Myra ORTH. Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library. Introduction by D.H. Turner. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1983. Folio. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION. The selection discussed focuses on the period form 1450 to 1560, and its three major schools: Flemish, Italian, and French. From the Preface: “The twenty-four manuscripts and one printed book discussed in this catalogue belong to the glorious era of European illumination that extended from circa 1450 until 1560. The British Library’s extraordinary holdings from this period give an overview of the development of manuscript illumination and indicate in broad terms the heights of artistic achievement in three major geographical regions where Renaissance illumination flourished: the Flemish territories (present-day Belgium), France, and Italy.” (400162) $90 Page 4 12. THE BRITISH LIBRARY — NICKSON, M.A.E. The British Library: Guide to the catalogues and indexes of the Department of Manuscripts. London: The British Library, 1982. 4to. 24 pages. Original printed wrappers. Fine. Second, revised edition (the first was published in 1978). Detailing the foundation collections (Cotton, Harley, Sloane) and the other special collections (including Royal, Landsdowne, Hargrave, Stowe, Ash- ley and Yates Thompson). Also outlined are charters and rolls; seals; papyri and ostraca; and facsimiles. (400188) $15 13. THE BRITISH MUSEUM — SKEAT, T.C., compiler. Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts. Series V. London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1965. 4to text, 30 pages. 50 black-and-white plates. Loose as issued in cloth-backed board chemise and publisher’s board slipcase (top joint partly broken). FIRST EDITION. The series began in 1907. This Fifth Series is devoted entirely to the principal acquisitions which had been made since the appearance of the Fourth Series in 1928. During this period, the British Museum received the Yates Thompson collection, the greatest benefaction of its kind ever received, as well as the Luttrell Psalter, the Bedford Hours and Psalter, the Evesham Psalter, the Salvin Hours, the Benedictional of St. Ethelwold, and manuscripts from the Holkham and Dyson Perrins collections. (400184) $50 14. CAHN, Walter. Romanesque Bible Illumination. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univer- sity Press, 1982. Square 4to. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original tan linen; original printed dust jacket; publisher’s board slipcase. Fine, as new. FIRST EDITION of this work by the Chairman of the Department of Art His- tory at Yale. Cahn details Bibles produced throughout Europe during the late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages — including Carolingian, Mozarbic, Franco- Saxon, Anglo-Saxon, and Ottonian exam- ples. (400136) $75 Page 5 15. CALKINS, Robert G. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983. 4to. Profusely illustrated in black- and-white. Original crimson cloth; original pictorial dust jacket (slightest rubbing to front panel, generally fine). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Calkins, a professor of Art History at Cornell, selected a variety of works to create “an authoritative and innovative introduction to the illuminated manuscripts used by the Christian church in the Middle Ages” (dust jacket). (400149) $60 16. DEFOER, Henri L.M.; Anne S. KORTEWEG; and Wilhelmina C.M. WÜSTEFELD. The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting. Introduction by James H. Marrow. Stuttgart: Belser Verlag, 1989. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Utrecht, 1989-90. Laid-in is the German translation of Morrow’s introduction. (400159) $40 17. DODWELL, C.R. The Great Lambeth Bible. London: Faber and Faber, 1959. 4to. Eight tipped-in color plates. Original red cloth (a few small spots on front cover). FIRST EDITION, with notes on the description, style, iconography, and provenance of one of the acknowledged masterpieces of English Romanesque art. (400179) $50 18. EVANS, M.W. Medieval Drawings. London,