Search Results: Illuminated Manuscripts from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

New York: The Scheide Library / The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976. First edition. Fine. 8vo. Printed in red-and-black. Black-and-white illustrations. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, printed by the Stinehour Press. This was a joint exhibition between The Pierpont Morgan Library and The Scheide Library, gathering all the known Old English manuscripts in America.

London and Sydney: Paul Hamlyn, 1970. First edition. Fine/near-fine. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color. Original brown gilt-decorated cloth; original pictorial dust jacket (trifling nick at foot of spine panel). FIRST EDITION. Covering circa 550 B.C. to the 19th Century, with essays on the Merovingians, Charlemagne and the Ottonians (by Sabrina Mitchell), the Cathedral builders of the Romanesque (by Eric Fernie), and the age of religious art (by Marguerite Kay).

New York: Excalibur Books, 1981. First American edition. Near fine/very good. Folio. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original black cloth; original pictorial dust jacket (slightest rubbing). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, following the revised English translation of 1968 (it was originally published in French in 1958). The work is arranged chronologically, including essays on style, materials, influence, background, etc., and includes both Western and Eastern subjects.

Englewood Cliffs and New York: Prentice Hall, Inc. and Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1975. First edition. Very good/Good. Folio. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and color. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated; original pictorial dust jacket (some light rubbing and wear at edges). FIRST EDITION. The author was a professor at the Courtauld Institute, and his text provides an over-all view of artistic life in the medieval world. Included are a bibliography, glossary, chronological chart, maps, and index. This work was conceived as part of H.W. Janson's 'Library of Art History.'.

London: The British Library, 1982. Second, revised edition. Fine. 4to. 24 pages. Original printed wrappers. Second, revised edition (the first was published in 1978). Detailing the foundation collections (Cotton, Harley, Sloane) and the other special collections (including Royal, Landsdowne, Hargrave, Stowe, Ashley and Yates Thompson). Also outlined are charters and rolls; seals; papyri and ostraca; and facsimiles.

New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd, 1984. First edition. Fine. 4to. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original blue cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. A catalogue of 51 sculptures from France, Italy, England, Spain, and Cyprus.

New York: George Braziller, 1977. First edition. Fine. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION, a work in Braziller's series on important Eastern and Western manuscripts. The author, professor at the University of Pittsburgh, provides introduction and commentaries on 48 manuscripts, including the Book of Kells, the Lindisfarne Gospels, and the Book of Durrow.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. First edition. Fine. 2 volumes, folio. Vol I: color facsimile. Vol II: text. Original tan linen, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine; original printed board slipcase. FIRST EDITION, printing in facsimile and providing an in-depth scholarly examination of one of then only four illuminated manuscripts in the Met's collection. The manuscript was sold to the museum by H.P Kraus in 1968 and remains one of its most celebrated treasures.

London: Oxford University Press for Harvey Miller, 1984. First edition. Near fine/Near fine. 4to. 190 illustrations, including color frontispiece. Original tan linen; original printed dust jacket (slightest wear to lower front panel, generally fine). FIRST EDITION of the first volume of Wormald's collected works, printing eleven works on Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Included are Wormald's important studies of the Gospels of St Augustine and the Utrecht Psalter. The remaining essays are on Anglo-Saxon art.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1984. First edition. Fine. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, issued simultaneously in wrappers and cloth. This exhibition was held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 5 April-8 July 1984. The essays by leading scholars in the field include studies of manuscripts, wall-paintings, stained glass, sculpture, ivory carvings, metalwork, decorative ironwork, seals, coins, bindings, potters, and textiles. A bibliography and chronology are found at end.

London and New York: Phaidon Press, 1969. Two volumes, large 4to: text and plates. Profusely illustrated with 845 illustrations, of which 12 are color and tipped-in. Original cloth; dust jackets. A near-fine set with slightest spotting to sheet edges, the jackets fresh and bright. Second edition. [Image shows both this set and the separately-listed volume dedicated to The Boucicaut Master.].

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1984. First edition. Fine. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, issued simultaneously in cloth. Two hundred treasures of pre-Norman art are described and illustrated, including the Alfred Jewel, the Benedictionals of St. Aethelwold and Archbishop Robert, the Exeter Book, and the Beowulf manuscript.

Stuttgart: Belser Verlag, 1989. First edition in English. Fine. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Utrecht, 1989-90. Laid-in is the German translation of Morrow's introduction.

London: Faber and Faber, 1959. First edition. Very good. 4to. Eight tipped-in color plates. Original red cloth (a few small spots on front cover). FIRST EDITION, with notes on the description, style, iconography, and provenance of one of the acknowledged masterpieces of English Romanesque art.

London: Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1911. First edition. Good. Tall 8vo. 51 black-and-white plates. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered and -decorated on front cover and spine (front joint partly spit, some light wear at extremities). FIRST EDITION, in the original cloth. J.A. Herbert became the Deputy Keeper of the Manuscripts in the British Museum, where he specialized in illumination and the medieval tales. While working at the British Museum, and in addition to this work, he wrote Volume iii of the 'Catalogue of Romances' in 1911, 'Schools of Illumination' (1914-1930), and 'The French Text of Ancrene Riwle' in 1944.

New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc, 1986. First edition. Fine. Folio. 48 black-and-white illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. FIRST EDITION, with indices of manuscripts, authors and titles, places of origin and provenance, dates, and iconographic contents. The contributors comprise Cart T. Berkhout, William I. Bormann, Mildred O. Budny, John C. Contreni, Helmut Gneuss, Robert M. Harris, John Higgitt, John B. Friedman, Louis Jordan, Lister Matheson, Ann Shannon, William M. Voelkle, and Charles Wright. This was conceived as a supplement to the Harvey Miller series.

Owings Mill, MD: Stemmer House, 1983. First edition. Fine. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color. Original glazed decorated boards. FIRST EDITION of this introductory work by the former Keeper of the Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum. "For the scholar it is the only pictorial record available of an extensive part of the V&A collection including the bequests of George Reid, George Salting, David Currie and Sir Sydney Cockerell" (back board note).

London, Paris and New York: The Hyperion Press, 1940. First edition. Good. 4to. Color plates, black-and-white illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers (two small pieces of clear tape on spine); original glassine (portions lacking). FIRST EDITION of the standard appraisal of the life and work of the 15th-century French painter, Jean Fouquet.

New York: George Braziller, 1977. First edition. Fine. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION, the third in Braziller's series on important Eastern and Western manuscripts. The author, professor at Princeton, provides introduction and commentaries on 48 manuscripts.

New York: The Pierpoint Morgan Library, 1974. First edition. Fine. Folio. Black-and-white illustrations. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, detailing 50 exceptional manuscripts acquired in half a century at The Morgan.