Description
George Braziller, Published 1977. Hardcover, 127 pp.; 29 cm; First Printing (stated); 48 color plates with facing commentaries, black-and-white figures. Book and cover designed by John Lynch; printed by Mohndruck in West Germany.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Green cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine; mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Previous owner's name and address stamped on front pastedown. Pages mildly toned along edges, otherwise unmarked. Gold-foil pictorial dust jacket reproducing the Lion of Saint Mark from the Echternach Gospels on front panel, plain gold rear panel; a few nicks and tears of 1 inch or less, heavier chipping and tearing at head of spine, mild shelf and edge wear, and some bumping and creasing along edges. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Survey of Hiberno-Saxon book illumination from the seventh and eighth centuries in 48 full-page color plates, each faced by a commentary, with an introduction, bibliography, and list of plates and figures. Manuscripts reproduced include the Book of Durrow, the Echternach Gospels, the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Gospels of Saint Chad, the Canterbury Codex Aureus, the Book of Kells, and the Book of Mulling. Carl Nordenfalk (1907-1992), director of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm from 1958 to 1968 and later Mellon Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, wrote his dissertation on early Gospel canon tables and, with Andre Grabar, the Skira volume Early Medieval Painting (1957). Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Bibliography; List of Color Plates and Black-and-White Figures; Color Plates and Commentaries.