A HISTORY OF BOOK ILLUSTRATION.
The Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book. Pp. 460(last blank), hand-tipped coloured frontispiece and 21 coloured plates (15 hand-tipped), plus numerous black & white plates (within pagination) and text illustrations, bibliography, index; impl. 8vo; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the spine blocked in black, bottom fore-corner of upper board bruised, bottom edges of boards slightly shelf worn; top edges pale yellow; price-clipped dust wrapper with bookseller's sticker at foot of front flap, edges a trifle rubbed and split; bookplate of Richard Griffin on upper pastedown; Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1969. Second edition. *Standard reference work. Item #164860
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