Pp. 80, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; demy 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, faintly scuffed; Phaidon, Oxford, 1987. Paperback edition. *With loosely inserted related ephemera. First published in 1979. More about THE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
Life in the Middle Ages. The calendar pictures in the Duc de Berry's Tres Riches Heures. Pp. [30], including the pastedowns, illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, faintly scuffed, with publicity sticker on upper board; Prestel-Verlag, New York, 1997. Adventures in Art series. *Reproduces the twelve... More about THE DUKE AND THE PEASANT
Single leaf from The Universal Penman. Engraved by George Bickham, London 1739. *Originally published in instalments over 15 years, The Universal Penmanwas the largest compendium on penmanship, flourishes and calligraphic illustrations ever published. Bickham lived from 1684 to 1758 - a period when the script letter had been developed to... More about ACQUITTANCES
Single leaf from The Universal Penman. Engraved by George Bickham, London 1739. *Originally published in instalments over 15 years, The Universal Penman was the largest compendium on penmanship, flourishes and calligraphic illustrations ever published. Bickham lived from 1684 to 1758 - a period when the script letter had been developed... More about AVARICE
Single leaf from The Universal Penman. Engraved by George Bickham, London 1739. *Originally published in instalments over 15 years, The Universal Penmanwas the largest compendium on penmanship, flourishes and calligraphic illustrations ever published. Bickham lived from 1684 to 1758 - a period when the script letter had been developed to... More about BILLS OF ENTRY
Single leaf from The Universal Penman. Engraved by George Bickham, London 1739. *Originally published in instalments over 15 years, The Universal Penman was the largest compendium on penmanship, flourishes and calligraphic illustrations ever published. Bickham lived from 1684 to 1758 - a period when the script letter had been developed... More about BILLS OF ENTRY
Single leaf from The Universal Penman. Engraved by George Bickham, London 1739. *Originally published in instalments over 15 years, The Universal Penmanwas the largest compendium on penmanship, flourishes and calligraphic illustrations ever published. Bickham lived from 1684 to 1758 - a period when the script letter had been developed to... More about BILLS OF PARCELS
Single leaf from The Universal Penman. Engraved by George Bickham, London 1739. Short closed tear from bottom edge into margin. *Originally published in instalments over 15 years, The Universal Penmanwas the largest compendium on penmanship, flourishes and calligraphic illustrations ever published. Bickham lived from 1684 to 1758 - a period... More about ENVY AND DETRACTION
Single leaf from The Universal Penman. Engraved by George Bickham, London 1739. *Originally published in instalments over 15 years, The Universal Penmanwas the largest compendium on penmanship, flourishes and calligraphic illustrations ever published. Bickham lived from 1684 to 1758 - a period when the script letter had been developed to... More about A LETTER TO A FACTOR
Single leaf from The Universal Penman. Engraved by George Bickham, London 1739. *Originally published in instalments over 15 years, The Universal Penmanwas the largest compendium on penmanship, flourishes and calligraphic illustrations ever published. Bickham lived from 1684 to 1758 - a period when the script letter had been developed to... More about MENTOR'S DESCRIPTION
Single leaf from The Universal Penman. Engraved by George Bickham, London 1739. *Originally published in instalments over 15 years, The Universal Penmanwas the largest compendium on penmanship, flourishes and calligraphic illustrations ever published. Bickham lived from 1684 to 1758 - a period when the script letter had been developed to... More about SIR ANDREW GOLD AND CO
Single leaf from The Universal Penman. Engraved by George Bickham, London 1739. Short closed tear from bottom edge into margin. *Originally published in instalments over 15 years, The Universal Penmanwas the largest compendium on penmanship, flourishes and calligraphic illustrations ever published. Bickham lived from 1684 to 1758 - a period... More about SIR ANTHONY DEALMUCH
Pp. xx+286, frontispiece and numerous full page illustrations printed in dark brown on tinted paper, the title page printed in red & black, chronology, index; demy 4to; gilt lettered red cloth, boards a trifle sprung, small stain to upper board; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed and... More about CHINESE CALLIGRAPHERS AND THEIR ART
32.5 cm. x 20 cm.; mounted. [21ED]. More about RECEIPTS
. Musee Conde, Chantilly. Preface by Charles Sterling. Introduction and legends by Claude Schaefer. Texts translated from the French by Marianne Sinclair. Pp. 128 47 hand-tipped coloured plates, notes, selected bibliography, title index; demy 4to; maroon cloth, lettered in gilt; within black card slipcase with coloured pictorial onlay and wrap-around... More about THE HOURS OF ETIENNE CHEVALIER
Its history and production. Pp. 514, 16 coloured and 120 black & white plates, general bibliography, indices; thick roy. 8vo; edges of boards a trifle rubbed, corners slightly bruised; Faber and Faber, London, 1967. New edition, revised and augmented with the assistance of Dr. Reinbold Regensburger. More about THE ILLUMINATED BOOK
Its history and production. Pp. 524, 260 plates (6 coloured), general bibliography, indices; thick roy. 8vo; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny chips, back panel slightly soiled, the backstrip faintly faded; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper... More about THE ILLUMINATED BOOK
Calligraphy by Christine Farmer, illustrated by Helena Lovell. Pp. [16], stiff textured light brown paper, text and decorations printed in brown; punched & tied by ribbon; some light soiling; Crystal Print,Hobart, 1979. *Includes poetry by Bernard O'Dowd, Judith Wright, Henry Kendall, David Campbell and James McAuley. More about AUSTRALIAN POETRY: A CALENDAR FOR 1980
Calligraphy by Christine Farmer. Pp. [16], stiff textured cream paper, text and decorations printed in black and red; punched & tied by ribbon; some light soiling; Crystal Print,Hobart, 1978. More about SHAKESPEARE'S SONGS: A CALENDAR FOR 1979
Highlights from Matrix, the review for printers and bibliophiles. Introduction by John D. Berry. Pp. 376(last colophon), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, the title page and colophon printed in red & black, index; demy 4to; grey papered boards, decorated in red, the spine blocked in black and... More about TYPE TYPOGRAPHY
Pp. [xii]+254, frontispiece, numerous text illustrations, printed in red & black; demy 8vo; boards lightly marked and flecked; price clipped dust wrapper, lightly marked, backstrip browned and with several chips; endpapers offset, edges of leaves slightly foxed; George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1955. Third printing. The history of... More about THE 26 LETTERS
Pp. xxxii+26, 24 plates, select bibliography, indices; demy 4to; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; name in ink and light stain near top fore-corner of upper free endpaper; University of California Press, Berkeley, 1980. U.S. edition. *First published in 1969 in the Oxford Paleographical Handbooks series;... More about ENGLISH CURSIVE BOOK HANDS 1250-1500
A Guide to Illuminated Manuscripts. Pp. 64, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, glossary; square 4to; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the upper board decorated in blind; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split; light stain to fore-edge p. 38; Pierpont Morgan Library/Farrar, Straus &... More about BIBLES AND BESTIARIES