ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS from

Sotheby & Co. 1958-60. 3 Vols., 4to, 184 plates (18 in colour), list of prices and buyers' names loosely inserted, orig. printed boards, 155 lots. Dyson Perrins formed his collection early in the twentieth century when exceptional manuscripts of this type, though rare enough, were by no means unobtainable, and it seems unlikely that any series… Read more about this item

Paris: Éditions Verve, 1946. Folio, coloured frontis., 30 tipped-in coloured plates, orig. decorated boards, d.w. slightly torn.

Oxford: Privately Printed by the Oxford University Press. 1927-30. First edition, folio (465 x 330mm), 2 vols., in 4 (all published, 2 vols., of text each with an accompanying volume of plates), xii, [4], 145, [3]; xiv, [2], 263, [1]pp., printed on hand-made paper, coloured frontispieces, 201 plates (2 in colour, some double-page) prepared by Emery Walker, orig. buckram,… Read more about this item

London: The British Library., 1991. 4to, 216pp., frontis., numerous facsimiles (some coloured), orig. cloth, d.w. spine slightly faded. The de Brailes Hours is the earliest surviving independent Book of Hours, dating from about 1240.

Sotheby & Co. 1968-69. 2 Vols., 4to, prices and buyers' names loosely inserted, 10 coloured and 87 monochrome plates, orig. printed boards, 75 lots.

London: [Privately Printed] at the Chiswick Press. 1909. Folio, 21, [1]pp., one of 100 numbered copies, presentation inscribed, with coloured vignette on title and 14 collotype plates, orig. cloth, a fine copy.

Printed for the Trustees. 1932. Folio, [x],61,[1]pp., coloured frontis., 1 coloured plate, 183 monochrome plates, title in red and black, orig. gilt buckram, a little rubbed and stained, uncut. Reproduces all the important illustrations from this great English manuscript from the East Anglia school, dating from about 1340 A.D. The reproductions are on the scale of… Read more about this item

Sotheby's. 1983. 4to, 295pp., numerous illustrs., (some coloured), orig. printed wrappers, spine slightly torn, 223 lots.

Verein Für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin. 1933. First Edition, folio, 92pp., presentation inscription, 3 coloured plates, and 218 other reproductions in photogravure, orig. cloth, extremities slightly rubbed. The plates are numbered from 1 to 219, but plate 2 was never issued.

The Warburg Institute. 1960. Folio, xxiv,294pp., coloured frontis., 174 plates, orig. cloth.

Societe Francaise de Reproductions de Manuscrits a Peintures, Paris. 1933. 4to, 42,[2]pp., 64 plates (some double-page), loose in orig. portfolio, hinges rubbed.

Les Éditions G. van Oest, Paris & Brussels. 1928. Large 4to, xii,134,[2]pp., coloured frontis., 100 plates, orig. printed wrappers, uncut.

Urs Graf-Verlag, Olten. 1954. 4to, 169pp., coloured frontis., 52 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. slip-case.

Cambridge University Press. 1930-32. 4to, 5 parts in one, 871pp., orig. buckram, a nice copy. Pfaff, pp.280-7. "In quality the Lambeth catalogue is as fine as any MRJ ever did."

A.S. Barnes and Co., New York. 1973. 4to, with the Adams bookplate, 216 illustrs., (some coloured), orig. cloth, d.w.

Sotheby & Co. 1965-1976. 11 Parts, 4to, many plates in each part (some in colour), orig. printed boards. The celebrated collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) and dispersed by order of the Trustees of the Robinson Trust.

Sotheby and Co. 1927. Signed by Dr Wright, with a short note in his hand, 4 folding plates, orig. printed wrappers. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum).

G. van Oest, Paris. 1926-28. First Edition, 2 vols., folio, xiii,162,[2]; x,113,[3]pp., coloured frontispieces, 200 plates in collotype reproducing exquisite miniatures, marbled endpapers, cont. half red morocco, five raised bands, marbled boards, very light rubbing, spine of volume 2 slightly faded, uncut, t.e.g. a nice set. Standard work on English illumination, tracing its history from the… Read more about this item

Faber and Faber Ltd. 1959. First Edition, 4to, 8 tipped-in coloured plates, orig. cloth. The Faber Library of Illuminated Manuscripts Edited by Walter Oakeshott. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum).

Cambridge University Press. 1912. 4to, xxxii,410pp., from the library of Brian S. Cron with his signature, 108 photogravure plates, orig. buckram, gilt, uncut. Pfaff, pp.272-3.