Search Results: ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS from Forest Books

Styria, Wien. 1966. Folio, 272pp., 60 tipped-in coloured plates of illuminated manuscripts, orig. embossed cloth, gilt, a nice copy.

A.S. Barnes and Co., New York. 1973. 4to, with the Adams bookplate, 216 illustrs., (some coloured), orig. cloth, d.w.

Faber and Faber Ltd. 1945. First Edition, large 8vo, ex-library, 44 plates, orig. cloth.

Sotheby & Co. 1965-1976. 11 Parts, 4to, many plates in each part (some in colour), orig. printed boards. The celebrated collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) and dispersed by order of the Trustees of the Robinson Trust.

Ebury Press. 1991. Small 8vo, coloured illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.

Prestel, Munich. 1984. 4to, facsimiles throughout, (some coloured), orig. cloth, d.w.

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. 1958. 94pp., presentation copy from Jean Porcher, some pencil annotations in Adams hand, 32 plates (some coloured), orig. decorated wrappers. From the library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr.

Sotheby's. 1983. 4to, 295pp., numerous illustrs., (some coloured), orig. printed wrappers, spine slightly torn, 223 lots.

Sotheby and Co. 1927. Signed by Dr Wright, with a short note in his hand, 4 folding plates, orig. printed wrappers. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum).

Sotheby & Co. 1931. Coloured frontis., 4 plates (2 folding), orig. printed wrappers.

Instituto Nacional del Libro Español, Barcelona. 1962. 75pp., 16 plates, orig. printed wrappers.

Sotheby & Co. 1968-69. 2 Vols., 4to, prices and buyers' names loosely inserted, 10 coloured and 87 monochrome plates, orig. printed boards, 75 lots.

Verein Für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin. 1933. First Edition, folio, 92pp., presentation inscription, 3 coloured plates, and 218 other reproductions in photogravure, orig. cloth, extremities slightly rubbed. The plates are numbered from 1 to 219, but plate 2 was never issued.

Cambridge University Press. 1912. 4to, xxxii,410pp., 108 photogravure plates, endpapers spotted, orig. buckram, gilt. Pfaff, pp.272-3.

Cambridge University Press. 1912. 4to, xxxii,410pp., from the library of Brian S. Cron with his signature, 108 photogravure plates, orig. buckram, gilt, uncut. Pfaff, pp.272-3.

Cambridge University Press. 1930-32. 4to, 5 parts in one, 871pp., orig. buckram, a nice copy. Pfaff, pp.280-7. "In quality the Lambeth catalogue is as fine as any MRJ ever did."

Urs Graf-Verlag, Olten. 1954. 4to, 169pp., coloured frontis., 52 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. slip-case.

Holbein-Verlag, Munich. 1922. First Edition, 4to, coloured frontis., 39 plates (3 coloured), orig. decorated cloth-backed boards.

Faber and Faber Ltd. 1961. 4to, signed and dated by Dr Wright, 14 plates (12 coloured and tipped-in), orig. cloth. The Faber Library of Illuminated Manuscripts Edited by Walter Oakeshott. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum).

Sotheby & Co. 1958-60. 3 Vols., 4to, 184 plates (18 in colour), list of prices and buyers' names loosely inserted, orig. printed boards, 155 lots. Dyson Perrins formed his collection early in the twentieth century when exceptional manuscripts of this type, though rare enough, were by no means unobtainable, and it seems unlikely that any series of quite such quality will come on the market again.