The Decorated Letter From The VIIIth To The XIIth Century

Paris: Les Editions du Chene, 1950. First edition. Boards. Orig. thick, tan boards. Small nick at backstrip head, else very good in chipped dust wrapper. 120 pages. Eight plates of which twenty-three are tipped-in, full-color reproductions, and the quality of the color plates are estimable. Numerical List of Manuscripts Used (Bibliotheque Nationale). The book jacket is a color lithograph printed by Fernand Mourlot. Translated from the French by Michael Heron.