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illuminated reference, with a selection of on the art of the From a Private

1. ABBEY, Maj. J.R., his sale. Illuminated from the Celebrated 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 . 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. . 380 black-and-white and color illustrations, including 8 color plates tipped-in as issued. Original cloth; original .

FIRST EDITION, and a very fine copy, virtually as issued. This is the first 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 in a series of large-format featuring important Eastern and Western manuscripts. (400172) $50

4. BACKHOUSE, Janet. The . 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 , the author surveys illumination from the 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 , 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 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 . 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 — 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 , following a 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. 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 — 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 (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 , the 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 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 produced throughout Europe during the 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 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, , and provenance of one of the acknowledged masterpieces of English . (400179) $50

18. EVANS, M.W. Medieval Drawings. London, New York, Sydney, Toronto: Paul Hamlyn, 1969. Folio. Profusely illustrated in black- and-white. Original blue cloth, decorated and lettered in green; original pictorial dust jacket (1/4-in. chip at upper left of front panel, otherwise generally fine).

FIRST EDITION, one of the first works to focus solely on the drawings of the Middle Ages, as seen in 132 illustrations. The author was on the staff of the Warburg Institute of the University of London. (400146) $50

Page 6 19. FACSIMILE — ALEXANDER, J.J.G, editor. The Master of Mary of Burgundy. A Book of Hours for Engelbert of Nassau. Oxford and New York: The Bodleian Library / George Braziller, 1970. Small 8vo. Color facsimile. Original blue leather, richly gilt, simulating the dentelle binding on the manuscript; publisher’s board slipcase. Fine.

FIRST EDITION. A fine facsimile of this exceptional Netherlandish manuscript (400161) $75

20. FACSIMILE — MEISS, Millard, introduction; Marcel THOMAS, introduction and commentaries. The Rohan Master: A Book of Hours. New York: George Braziller, 1973. 4to. Color facsimile. Original gilt- decorated and -lettered cloth; publisher’s decorated board slipcase. Fine.

FIRST EDITION of this facsimile of the Hours of the Rohan Master. According to Millard Meiss, “The Rohan Master cared less about what people do than what they feel. Whereas his great predecessors excelled in the description of the aspects of the natural world, he explored the realm of human feeling.” Meiss concludes that the Rohan Master was the “greatest expressionist in 15th century France.” (400173) $125

Page 7 21. FACSIMILE — PLUMMER, John, editor. The Hours of Catherine of Cleves. New York: George Braziller, [1975]. 8vo. Color facsimile. Original gilt-decorated and -lettered simulated leather; publisher’s board slipcase. Fine.

FIRST EDITION. A fine facsimile of this celebrated manuscript, belonging to The Guennol Collection and The Pierpont Morgan Library. Errata slip laid-in. As described by The Morgan: “The Hours of Catherine of Cleves is the greatest Dutch illuminated manuscript in the world. Its 157 miniatures are by the gifted Master of Catherine of Cleves (active ca. 1435–60), who is named after this book. The Master of Catherine of Cleves is considered the finest and most original illuminator of the medieval northern Netherlands, and this manuscript is his masterpiece.” (400169) $100

22. GLAZIER COLLECTION — PLUMMER, John. The Glazier Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts. Introduction by Frederick B. ADAMS, Jr. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1968. 4to. 57 illustrations, some in color. Original blue gilt-lettered cloth (small pale stain on fore-edge of front cover).

FIRST EDITION, serving as both an illustrated guide to the exhibition at The Morgan and a complete record of the collection of illuminated manuscripts formed by William S. Glazier. The treasures of the collection include the Coptic Acts of the Gospels, the Chelles Sacramentary, the Salzburg Lectionary, and the Psalter. (400183) $40

Page 8 23. HERBERT, J.A. Illuminated Manuscripts. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1911. Tall 8vo. 51 black-and-white plates. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered and -decorated on front cover and spine (front joint partly spit, some light wear at extremities).

FIRST EDITION, in the original cloth. J.A. Herbert became the Deputy Keeper of the Manuscripts in the British Museum, where he specialized in illumination and the medieval tales. While working at the British Museum, and in addition to this work, he wrote Volume iii of the ‘Catalogue of Romances’ in 1911, ‘Schools of Illumination’ (1914-1930), and ‘The French Text of Ancrene Riwle’ in 1944. (400145) $100

24. HUYGHE, René, general editor. Art and Mankind. Larousse Encyclopedia of Byzantine and . New York: Excalibur Books, 1981. Folio. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original black cloth; original pictorial dust jacket (slightest rubbing).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, following the revised English translation of 1968 (it was originally published in French in 1958). The work is arranged chronologically, including essays on style, materials, influence, background, etc., and includes both Western and Eastern subjects. (400148) $30

Page 9 25. — , Lathrop C., Inc. A Selection of Incunabula Describing One Thousand Books Printed in the XVth Century. New York: Lathrop C. Harper, 1930. 8vo. General title, five sectional titles. With addenda leaf after general title. Frontispieces to each part. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine.

FIRST COLLECTED EDITION combining the famous series of five incunabula catalogues issued by Lathrop C. Harper between 1927 and 1930 and adding a single leaf of Additions and Corrections. The compiler E. Miriam Lone wrote: “I have tried to give in this catalogue: Author, Title, Place, Printer, Date, and where possible, the Collation and Provenance.This ‘Selection’ in five parts, is also somewhat of a ‘First’ being, I believe, the first catalogue issued by an American bookseller exclusively devoted to Fifteenth- century books, fully described with collations, notes, etc.”An index is included at end. The introductions are by Harper (I); Lawrence C. Wroth (II); Margaret B. Stillwell (III); Lucy Eugenia Osborne (IV); and Dr. George Parker Winship (V). (400189) $100

25A. Another copy. $100

26. KAUFFMANN, C.M. Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190. London: Harvey Miller, 1975. Folio. 350 black- and-white and color illustrations, including 4 color plates tipped-in as issued. Original cloth; original dust jacket. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, and a very fine copy, virtually as issued. This is the third volume of ‘A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles,’ edited by J.G.G. Alexander (see item 2). Kauffmann catalogues in detail, and illustrates fully, more than 100 English illuminated manuscripts, providing full descriptions of format, style, and subject matter, as well as provenance. (400138) $300

Page 10 27. THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — PALLADINO, Pia. Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. New York: Yale University Press / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. Folio. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket, AS-NEW IN ORIGINAL PLASTIC SEAL.

FIRST EDITION, an unsealed copy. This book “presents 144 leaves, cuttings, and illuminated manuscript fragments from the collection of Robert Lehman (1891–1969), one of the largest and most impressive private holdings of Italian manuscripts assembled after the First World War. Discussed here—with many of them handsomely illustrated in full color—are important examples of the major schools of illumination in southern Italy, Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia, Lombardy, and the Veneto. Previously unpublished, and perhaps even unknown to scholars, are works by some of the foremost Italian painters of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, including a leaf here attributed for the first time to the Sienese master Duccio di Buoninsegna and cuttings by Stefano da Verona and Cosimo Tura. Lesser-known artists, such as Neri da Rimini, Belbello da Pavia, and Girolamo da Cremona, once renowned for their beautifully illuminated volumes, are also discussed in full” (The Met). (400155) $60

28. THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — Florens DEUCHLER; Jeffrey M. HOFFELD; and Helmut NICKEL. Apocalypse. An early fourteenth-century manuscript in facsimile. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. 2 volumes, folio. Vol I: color facsimile. Vol II: text. Original tan linen, gilt- lettered on front cover and spine; original printed board slipcase. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, in facsimile and providing an in-depth scholarly examination of one of then only four illuminated manuscripts in the Met’s collection. The manuscript was sold to the museum by H.P Kraus in 1968 and remains one of its most celebrated treasures. (400150) $75

Page 11 29. THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — Margaret English FRAZER. Medieval Church Treasures. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. 4to. Illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers (a few small scratches to front cover).

FIRST EDITION, the Met’s Winter 1985/86 bulletin. Illustrating 70 works, arranged according to their liturgical prominence. (400187) $20

30. THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM ON ART — KANTER, Laurence B.; Barbara Drake BOEHM; Carl Brandon STREHLKE; Gaudenz FREULER; Chrisa C. MAYER THURMAN; Pia PALLADINO. Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N Abrams, 1994. Folio. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; original pictorial dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION, published to accompany the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum in 1994-95. This catalogue studies five generations of manuscript painters in Florence, from the contemporaries of Giotto at the beginning of the fourteenth century to and his followers in the middle of the fifteenth. (400160) $100

Page 12 31. NORDENFALK, Carl. Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting. Book Illumination in the British Isles 600-800. New York: George Braziller, 1977. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, a work in Braziller’s series on important Eastern and Western manuscripts. The author, professor at the University of Pittsburgh, provides introduction and commentaries on 48 manuscripts, including the , the Lindisfarne Gospels, and the Book of Durrow. (400181) $50

32. OHLGREN, Thomas H., compiler and editor. Insular and Anglo- Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts. An Iconographic Catalogue c. A.D. 625 to 1100. New York and London: Garland Inc., 1986. Folio. 48 black-and-white illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine.

FIRST EDITION, with indices of manuscripts, authors and titles, places of origin and provenance, dates, and iconographic contents. The contributors comprise Cart T. Berkhout, William I. Bormann, Mildred O. Budny, John C. Contreni, Helmut Gneuss, Robert M. Harris, John Higgitt, John B. Friedman, Louis Jordan, Lister Matheson, Ann Shannon, William M. Voelkle, and Charles Wright. This was conceived as a supplement to the Harvey Miller series (see items 2 and 26). (400140) $175

33. PÄCHT, Otto. Book Illumination in the Middle Ages. An Introduction. Preface by J.J.G. Alexander. London: Oxford University Press for Harvey Miller, 1986. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white, including 32 plates in color. Original red cloth, gilt- lettered; original pictorial dust jacket. Fine.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, the original edition in German was published in 1984. Pächt, Emeritus Professor in the at the University of Vienna, based this book on the series of lectures he gave on the subject. A select bibliography and glossary of technical terms are found at end. (400157) $80

Page 13 34. PERLS, Klaus G. Jean Fouquet. London, Paris and New York: The Hyperion Press, 1940. 4to. Color plates, black-and-white illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers (two small pieces of clear tape on spine); original glassine (portions lacking).

FIRST EDITION of the standard appraisal of the life and work of the 15th-century French painter, Jean Fouquet. (400177) $30

35. THE PIERPONT MORGAN & SCHEIDE LIBRARIES — COLLINS, Rowland L. Anglo-Saxon Vernacular Manuscripts in America. New York: The Scheide Library / The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976. First edition. 8vo. Printed in red-and-black. Black-and- white illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, printed by the Stinehour Press. This was a joint exhibition between The Pierpont Morgan Library and The Scheide Library, gathering all the known Old English manuscripts in America. (400154) $20

36. THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY. Mediaeval & Renaissance Manuscripts. Major Acquisitions of The Pierpont Morgan Library 1924-1974. New York: The Pierpoint Morgan Library, 1974. Folio. Black-and-white illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, detailing 50 exceptional manuscripts acquired in half a century at The Morgan. (400163) $60

36A. Another copy. $60

37. THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY. The Written Word: Inscriptions, Texts and Illuminated Manuscripts from 3200 B.C. to the Invention of Printing in the XVth Century. New York: The Pierpoint Morgan Library, 1945. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, front cover with color illustration mounted (a few nicks at edges).

FIRST EDITION. This exhibition was held 14 December 1944 to 14 April 1945. It commenced with examples of Mesopotamian seals and clay tables and concluded with 41 manuscripts from the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. (400185) $20

Page 14 38. THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY — RYSKAMP, Charles. The Stavelot Triptych. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1980. Square 4to. Illustrated in color. Original printed wrappers, AS-NEW IN ORIGINAL PLASTIC SEAL (some contraction of the pastic seal with associated buckling of the text block).

FIRST EDITION, an unsealed copy. This triptych was made in the Meuse Valley, Belgium, circa 1130-1158. It is the earliest surviving reliquary of the Tur Cross with illustrations from the Legend of the Tur Cross, uniting Eastern & Western iconographic traditions. (400170) $25

39. THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY — HARRSEN, Meta, compiler. Central European Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958. Folio. Ninety plates, five in color. Original blue linen; publisher’s slipcase. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, one of 750 copies for sale of an edition of 850, printed by The Spiral Press. The text describes 64 manuscripts in the Morgan collection, each illustrated. Detailed entries provide origin, size, leaf count, provenance, and bibliographic background. (400139) $90

40. THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY — PLUMMER, John. Liturgical Manuscripts for the Mass and the Divine Office. Introduction by Anselm Strittmatter. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1964. 8vo. 24 black- and-white plates. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION. Catalogue of manuscripts selected for exhibition in The Pierpont Morgan Library, 14 January to 21 March 1964. (400165) $25

41. THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY — WIECK, Roger S. Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and . New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1998. Folio. Profusely illustrated in color. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered and -decorated; original pictorial dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION, published on the occasion of the exhibition “Medieval : The Book of Hours” at The Pierpont Morgan Library from 17 September 1997 to 4 January 1998. The addenda leaf for 38 bis is laid-in. One of the most comprehensive general introductions to the art and history of the illuminated Book of Hours. (400151) $60

Page 15 42. SMEYERS, Maurits, and Jan van der STOCK. Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1475-1550. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. Folio. 150 illustrations, of which 100 in color. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket, AS- NEW IN ORIGINAL PLASTIC SEAL.

FIRST EDITION, an unsealed copy. A co-production of the Flemish Community’s Administration of the Arts and the Catholic University of Leuven (Center for the Study of Flemish Illuminators) with the collaboration of the Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, Brussels, and the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp” (title-page verso). It was published on the occasion of the exhibition in the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, 7 March-5 May 1996, and the Museo Bardini, Florence, 7 June-28 July 1996. (400152) $50

43. SWARZENSKI, Hanns. Monuments of Romanesque Art. The Art of Church Treasures in North-Western Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. Second edition, second impression. 4to. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original printed wrappers (some light rubbing and wear).

Second edition, second impression, illustrating the continuity of artistic development throughout Romanesque Art. (400153) $25

44. THOMAS, Marcel. The Golden Age: Manuscript Painting at the Time of Jean, Duke of Berry. New York: George Braziller, 1979. 4to. Color illustrations. Original blue cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the printed overslip inserting the description for the first item. The author was Inspector General of Libraries in France. (400168) $40

45. TURNER, D.H. Romanesque Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum, 1971. 8vo. Illustrated in black-and-white, color plates. Original pictorial wrappers. Fine.

A reissue of the 1966 first edition. (400171) $10

46. VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM — HARTHMAN, John. An Introduction to Illuminated Manuscripts. Owings Mill, MD: Stemmer House, 1983. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color. Original glazed decorated boards. Fine.

FIRST EDITION of this introductory work by the former Keeper of the Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum. “For the scholar it is the only pictorial record available of an extensive part of the V&A collection including the bequests of George Reid, George Salting, David Currie and Sir Sydney Cockerell” (back board note). (400178) $60

Page 16 47. WAETZOLDT, Stephan, introduction. Trewin COPPLESTONE and Bernard S. MYERS, general editors. Art Treasures in Germany: Monuments, Masterpieces, Commissions and Collections. London and Sydney: Paul Hamlyn, 1970. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color. Original brown gilt-decorated cloth; original pictorial dust jacket (trifling nick at foot of spine panel).

FIRST EDITION. Covering circa 550 B.C. to the 19th Century, with essays on the Merovingians, Charlemagne and the Ottonians (by Sabrina Mitchell), the Cathedral builders of the Romanesque (by Eric Fernie), and the age of religious art (by Marguerite Kay). (400186) $50

48. WEITZMANN, Kurt. Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination. New York: George Braziller, 1977. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, the third in Braziller’s series on important Eastern and Western manuscripts. The author, professor at Princeton, provides introduction and commentaries on 48 manuscripts. (400180) $50

49. WILLIAMSON, Paul. Catalogue of Romanesque . New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd., 1984. 4to. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original blue cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Fine.

FIRST EDITION. A catalogue of 51 from France, Italy, England, Spain, and Cyprus. (400176) $40

50. WILLIAMSON, Paul. An Introduction to Medieval Carvings. Owings Mills, MD: Stemmer House, 1982. First edition, second impression. 4to. Illustrated in color. Original glazed pictorial boards (slightest rubbing).

FIRST EDITION, second impression. Covers the period from the imperial commissions of the fifth century to the end of the Gothic era. (400166) $20

Page 17 51. WORMALD, Francis. The Winchester Psalter. London: Harvey Miller & Medcalf, 1973. Folio. 134 illustrations, some in color. (Minor pale spotting near the fore-edge to about 20 leaves.) Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; original printed dust jacket (slightest bumping along upper and lower edges).

FIRST EDITION of Wormald’s pioneering study of the Winchester Psalter, the first detailed and authoritative on the subject. This was the last publication to be completed by Professor Wormald before his death. The dust jacket bears the original overlay sticker redacting Medcalf Ltd as a publisher, and amending it to Oxford University Press. (400142) $85

52. WORMALD, Francis. Edited by J.J.G. ALEXANDER, T.J. BROWN and Joan GIBBS. Collected Writings. I. Studies in Medieval Art from the Sixth to the Twelft Centuries. London: Oxford University Press for Harvey Miller, 1984. 4to. 190 illustrations, including color frontispiece. Original tan linen; original printed dust jacket (slightest wear to lower front panel, generally fine).

FIRST EDITION of the first volume of Wormald’s collected works, printing eleven works on Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Included are Wormald’s important studies of the Gospels of St Augustine and the Utrecht Psalter. The remaining essays are on Anglo- Saxon art. (400141) $75

Page 18 53. ZARNECKI, George. Art of the Medieval World. Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, The Sacred Arts. Englewood Cliffs and New York: Prentice Hall, Inc. and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1975. Folio. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and color. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated; original pictorial dust jacket (some light rubbing and wear at edges).

FIRST EDITION. The author was a professor at the Courtauld Institute, and his text provides an over-all view of artistic life in the medieval world. Included are a bibliography, glossary, chronological chart, maps, and index. This work was conceived as part of H.W. Janson’s ‘Library of Art History.’ (400144) $60

54. ZARNECKI, George; Janet HOLT; and Tristram HOLLAND, editors. English Romanesque Art 1066- 1200. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1984. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, issued simultaneously in wrappers and cloth. This exhibition was held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 5 April-8 July 1984. The essays by leading scholars in the field include studies of manuscripts, wall- paintings, , sculpture, ivory carvings, metalwork, decorative ironwork, seals, coins, bindings, potters, and textiles. A bibliography and chronology are found at end. (400156) $50

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