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Poyer, Jean (artist); Wieck, Roger S. (editor),
The Hours of Henry VIII.
Publisher: M. Moleiro, Barcelona;
Date of Publication: 2016
Stock Code: 10229
Folio, pp. 231, [3]. Illustrated throughout. Bound in full magenta cloth over boards with gilt titles and ornaments to upper board and spine with lilac woven place-marker. With a dark teal illustrated dust-jacket. Publisher’s Christmas card laid in with artwork from the Hours. Dust-jacket has very light minimal shelfwear. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust-jacket. Insightful study by Roger S. Wieck, curator of Medieval manuscripts at the Morgan Library in New York, on The Hours of Henry VIII. The manuscript represents the highest point in the development of the Book of Hours, the quintessential text for private devotion and a cornerstone of the European book trade by c. 1500. Lavishly illustrated throughout with high quality full colour illustrations, including full page reproductions of all the manuscript’s miniatures with accompanying detailed commentary. The book is edited and published by the luxury Spanish printing house of Moleiro, with their reproductions being described by the Times as “The Art of Perfection”.

£325.00