Illustrations from one hundred manuscripts in the library of Henry Yates Thompson : consisting of ninety plates illustrating seventeen MSS. with dates ranging from the XIIIth to the XVIth century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928, collector.

Contributor:

Alexander, J. J. G. (Jonathan James Graham), associated name, former owner.

Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928, inscriber.

Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.

Chiswick Press, printer.

Jonathan J.G. Alexander Collection of Books on Medieval Art and Architecture (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928--Library.

Thompson, Henry Yates.

Illumination of books and manuscripts.

Physical Description:

iii, [1], 42 pages, [1], LXXXVIII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 36 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1916.

Notes:

Color title vignette mounted.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare ND2897 .T56 1916 is the gift of Jonathan J.G. Alexander, 2023, with his bookplate and manuscript provenance note ("£6 5.0 (Quaritch c. 1965)") in pencil on front pastedown. Dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("C. Fairfax Murray from his friend H.Y. Thompson Jan 8 1917") recording the gift of this volume from Henry Yates Thompson to Charles Fairfax Murray on title leaf. Manuscript note ("11") at head of title leaf. Binding damaged; frontispiece and plates 30-41 and 73-87 detached.

OCLC:

667576163