BYRON, Robert & RICE, David

BYRON, Robert and RICE, David Talbot. The Birth of Western Painting. A History of Colour, Form, and Iconography, illustrated from the Paintings of Mistra and Mount Athos, of Giotto and Duccio, and of El Greco. London, George […]

PRAZ, Mario

PRAZ, Mario. Studies in Seventeenth-Century Imagery (SUSSIDI ERUDITI, issues No. 16 & 17) Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1974-75.       £ 125   4to. 2 vols (the first part being the 1975 offset reprint […]

WILLIAMSON, George C.

WILLIAMSON, George (ed.). Bryan’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers Port Washington, Kennikat Press, 1964.       £ 120   4to, 5 vols, each volume with about 45 final leaves of plates illustrated in b&w on both […]

DE HAMEL, Christopher

DE HAMEL, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1986       £ 130   Folio. 256 p., with 250 illustrations, both in colour and b/w, and frontispiece illustration. Buckram, gilt lettering to spine […]

DANA ORCUT, W.; BIAGI, G.

DANA ORCUT, William; BIAGI, Guido. The Book in Italy during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries shown in Facsimile Reproductions from the Most Famous Printed Volumes London, George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1928.       £ […]

THE ROYAL ACADEMY

[ROYAL ACADEMY]. Royal Academy Pictures [14 vols: 1895; 1896 (2 copies); 1897; 1901-6; 1908-10; 1913] London, Cassell and Company, 1895-1913.       £ 500   Folio. 14 vols, spanning 1895 to 1913, with two identical issues […]

HARRISON, Canon F. (Ed.)

HARRISON, Canon F. (ed.).Treasures of Illumination: English Manuscripts of the Fourteenth Century (c. 1250 to 1400), Described by the Rev. Canon F. Harrison, M.A., F.S.A. Chancellor and Librarian of York Minister London, The Studio Ltd., 1937.   […]

MORGAN, Nigel J.

MORGAN, Nigel J. Early Gothic Manuscripts London, Oxford University Press for Harvey Miller, 1982.       £ 150   Folio. 2 vols: 275 p., with 330 illustrations; 374 p., with 462 illustrations. Both vols with facsimile images […]