Illuminated illustrations of Froissart
Subtitle: selected from the ms. in the British Museum
By: by H.N. Humphreys.
Contributors: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.; Bradbury & Evans
Publisher: William Smith
Published: 1844
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Illuminations from the ms Froissart in the British Museum
Notes: Added ill. t.p. (hand-coloured lithograph).

Plates accompanied by descriptive letterpress and guardsheets.

"The present illuminations, copied from the precious MS. [in the Harleian Collection of the British Museum] ... will be made as near fac-similes as possible, without any attempt at correction, or alteration in the drawing, so as to show the true spirit of the Gothic artist, and exhibit the state of art at the period ... "--Advertisement, p. 2.

A second series [see McLean O 222.2] appeared under the title: "Illuminated illustrations of Froissart. Selected from the ms. in the Bibliothèque royale, Paris, and from other sources." By H.N. Humphreys. London, W. Smith, 1845. Cf. British Museum Catalogue. Both series, with the plates inserted in their proper places, are found in the reissue of Smith's edition, London, H.G. Bohn, 1855.

Error in pagination: p. [18] misnumbered 22; [24] misnumbered 28; [72] misnumbered 70.

MASS copy: Bound in half red morocco with gold tooling and green bubble-grain cloth-covered boards; marbled endpapers and edges.