Flemish Artists of the Valois Courts A Survey of the Fourteenth-and Early Fifteenth Century Development of Book Illumination and Panel Painting at the Courts of the Princes of the House of Valois
by Tovell, Ruth Masey
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- Signed
- first
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- Seller
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Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto:: University of Toronto Press,, 1950. First edition. 4to,. Illustrated. cloth and dustjacket. Small tear to head of spine jacket and two small spots, else very good. Limited to 550 numbered copies, signed by the author on the half title. The art of Flemish illuminists during the 14th and 15th centuries. Examples from "Les Grandes Heures du duc de Berry" and the work of Jan van Eyck amongst others are examined.
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- Bookseller
- Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC, ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B411
- Title
- Flemish Artists of the Valois Courts A Survey of the Fourteenth-and Early Fifteenth Century Development of Book Illumination and Panel Painting at the Courts of the Princes of the House of Valois
- Author
- Tovell, Ruth Masey
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press,
- Place of Publication
- Toronto:
- Date Published
- 1950
- Pages
- 157 pp
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book-Art/Decorative Arts;
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