The illuminated books of the middle ages
Subtitle: an account of the development and progress of the art of illumination, as a distinct branch of pictorial ornamentation, from the IVth. to the XVIIth. centuries...
By: Illustrated by a series of examples, of the size of the originals, selected from the most beautiful mss. of the various periods, executed on stone and printed in colours by Owen Jones
Contributors: Jones, Owen, 1809-1874, illustrator
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Published: 1849
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Illumination of books and manuscripts; History; Specimens
Notes: Added t.-p., illustrated in colors; colored ititials and borders.

Bound in half leather, rebacked; stamped in gold and black; yelloe coated endpapers; all edges gilt.