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Millar, Eric G(Eorge).

La miniature anglaise du Xe au XIIIe siècle. - (And:) La miniature anglaise aux XIVe et XVe siècles. 2 vols.

Paris and Brussels, G. Van Oest, 1926

900.00 €

Schumann Antiquariat

(Zurich, Switzerland)

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Year of publication
1926
Author
Millar, Eric G(Eorge).
Publishers
Paris and Brussels, G. Van Oest
Keyword
MANUSCRIPTS: GENERAL,

Description

With color frontispiece, and 100 plates in collotype in each vol. XIII, 162 pp., 1 leaf; X, 113 pp., 1 leaf. Folio. Contemp. half morocco (rubbed, some defects, but still sound). Paris and Brussels, G. Van Oest, 1926-28. French edition of this classic work on English illumination from the early 10th century to 1461, lavishly produced. It is considered the first serious chronology of illuminated manuscripts in Britain. The text by the scholar Eric Millar (1887-1966), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum from 1944-47, was translated by M. E. Maitre and Jean Buhot. The two color plates were printed by Emery Walker. MANUSCRIPTS: GENERAL ;
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