Mediaevel ornamental alphabets & numerals
Subtitle: 26 plates.
Contributors: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher: Bernard Quaritch
Published: 1845
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Alphabets; Initials; Illumination of books and manuscripts
Other titles: Alphabets numerals and devices of the Middle Ages
Notes: Plates by Henry Shaw.

One double leaf of text (containing title page and contents list) wrapping around 26 loose plates, in portfolio.

Probably a re-issue of the plates of the large paper issue of the Quaritch edition of 1845 (copy at Massey college), originally published under the title: Alphabets numerals and devices of the Middle Ages / by Henry Shaw. This re-issue with one extra plate, lacking the preliminary text, and with new t.p. and contents list, possibly as late as the 1920s.

MASS copy: Issued in a portfolio of quarter brown cloth and grey paper-covered boards, with printed title label.