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The Lindisfarne Gospels
by Backhouse, Janet
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/price-clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0714821489
- ISBN 13
- 9780714821481
- Seller
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Oxford: Phaidon, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/price-clipped. 4to, 96 pages, brown cloth
"This is the first book to make the chief glories of the Lindisfarne Gospels accessible to the general public. All the important illuminted pages - the miniatures of the Evangelists, the amazingly subtle and intricate 'cross-carpet' pages and the full-page initials - are reproduced in colour from a new and accurate set of photographs." This is the second of many books by Backhouse, who retired from the British Library as Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts.
"This is the first book to make the chief glories of the Lindisfarne Gospels accessible to the general public. All the important illuminted pages - the miniatures of the Evangelists, the amazingly subtle and intricate 'cross-carpet' pages and the full-page initials - are reproduced in colour from a new and accurate set of photographs." This is the second of many books by Backhouse, who retired from the British Library as Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0008814
- Title
- The Lindisfarne Gospels
- Author
- Backhouse, Janet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- price-clipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0714821489
- ISBN 13
- 9780714821481
- Publisher
- Phaidon
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- illuminated manuscripts, lindisfarne gospels, janet backhouse,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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