Scribes, Scripts and Books. The Book Arts from Antiquity to the Renaissance.

AVRIN, LEILA

ISBN 10: 071230245X / ISBN 13: 9780712302456

Verlag: Chicago-London, American Library Association-The British Library. 1991, 1991

Beschreibung

Original publisher's gray cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine and frontcover, blind-stamped illustration in red label frontcover, pictorial yellow dustjacket, large 4to: frontispiece, xxxij, 356pp., [4]pp., 308 plates, 35 figs, 7 maps, 10 tables, lists plates - gigures - maps - tables, captions, general bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 157723

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Scribes, Scripts and Books. The Book Arts from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
• Verlag: Chicago-London, American Library Association-The British Library. 1991
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 071230245X
• ISBN-13: 9780712302456
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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Inhaltsangabe

This is an encyclopaedic history of the handmade book from antiquity to the Renaissance. It looks at the origins of the book, the development of scripts and styles of illumination, the making of manuscripts, and the technological processes involved.