Description

Hardcover, slim quarto bound in russet cloth and lettered in gold on spine and front cover. 32 pages. Illustrated with 12 tipped in color plates and two full page black and white images. First American edition. A title in The (Faber) Library of Illuminated Manuscripts”. A picture book focusing on the 13th-centruy Douce Apocalypse “widely celebrated as one of the finest Gothic illuminated manuscripts from medieval England. No previous ownership marks. Mild fraying to top of spine, else a clean, square, and unmarked copy. Good.