Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages by Calkins, Robert G - 1983

Hardback. Very Good.

Thames & Hudson. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1983. Cloth/dust jacket Quarto. Hardcover. Very good/good. red cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 341 pp, small marks on back of dust jacket.

Thames & Hudson Ltd, 26/09/1983 00:00:01. hardcover. Very Good. 2.9977 in x 27.9787 in x 21.7834 in. Clean tight illustrated hardcover in jacket, a very good copy in a very good jacket.

Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1983-09-26. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Jacket. 25 to 30 cm tall, Quarto, (4to). Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is from the overseas collection at the National Library of New Zealand. A clean copy, other than a couple of stamps. For postage outside NZ this volume weighs1.8 kg and can be checked for its postage cost to your location at NZ Post Ratefinder We do not make a profit from postage.

Thames and Hudson, first UK edition, 1983. Cloth, 4to, 29 cm,. 341 pp, 158 ills, 27 in colour. From the blurb - "Decorated letters, penned calligraphic flourishes, subtle and elaborate borders, richly coloured miniatures - the brilliant visual elements of the illuminated manuscripts used by the Christian church in the Middle Ages have long fascinated both scholars and a much wider audience. Previous attempts to reproduce isolated pages or details from a large selection of such books, or even to popularize a single manuscript, have usually meant that the illuminations have been misleadingly presented as detached phenomena rather than functional objects whose decoration was directly related to their use. In this authoritative and innovative study, Professor Calkins has selected a variety of Bibles, liturgical books and devotional books for the laity to show the evolution of manuscript illumination throughout Europe. He ranges from the major monuments of Anglo-Irish or Insular illumination in the… Read More

London, Thames & Hudson Ltd. 1983. Original publisher's dark-red cloth hardback, gilt title spine, gilt ornament frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, 4to: frontispiece, 342pp., 27 colour plates & illustrations, 158 bl.& wh. plates & illustrations, foreword, introduction, 9 chapters, chapternotes & references, appendices: contents of manuscripts, bibliography, index, table of contents. Very fine copy.

Thames and Hudson, 1983 4to (28.5 cm), 341 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities). "In this authoritative and innovative study, Professor Calkins has selected a variety of Bibles, liturgical books and devotional books for the laity to show the evolution of manuscript illumination throughout Europe. He ranges from the major monuments of Anglo-Irish or Insular illumination in the seventh to the ninth centuries to the Books of Hours which flourished until the end of the great age of illumination with the invention of printing in the fifteenth century. Showing how text and illumination worked together, he considers the aesthetic impact of a manuscript as a whole: he takes a close look at the visual effect of the two-page display of an open book, at the relationship of decorative accents to major divisions of the text, and at the sequence of illuminations which builds, as one turns the pages, into an appropriate decorative scheme for a particular kind of book.… Read More