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Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in royal blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s red pictorial dust-jacket. 242 pages. Glossary, Selected Bibliography. Indexes. With 185 illustrations, 143 of which are in color. First edition, first printing published on the occasion of the eponymously named exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 10-May 13, 2001 and the First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tenn., September 27, 2001-January 6, 2002. A fine selection of eighty the Philadelphia area’s museums, universities, public library’s and scholarly institutions examples of medieval illuminated books, many published for the first time. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket. No international shipping available for this title; domestic Priority orders will require additional postage due to size and weight.