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Finnegans Wake Notebooks - VI.B. 3 (FWNB)
by James Joyce, edited by G. Lernout, V. Deane and D. Ferrer
The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition is a fully integrated and cross-referenced edition of all the extant work-books compiled by Joyce after the completion of Ulysses. It will be published as a series of fascicles, one per authorial notebook, three per scribal notebook, fifty-five in all. This will make individual notebooks available to scholars as they appear and allow critical feedback, laying the foundations for an electronic edition that will ...
Hardback. Price GB £72.00

Finnegans Wake Notebooks - VI.B.10 (FWNB)1
by James Joyce, edited by V. Deane, D. Ferrer, and G. Learnout
The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition is a fully integrated and cross-referenced edition of all the extant work-books compiled by Joyce after the completion of Ulysses. It will be published as a series of fascicles, one per authorial notebook, three per scribal notebook, fifty-five in all. This will make individual notebooks available to scholars as they appear and allow critical feedback, laying the foundations for an electronic edition that will ...
Hardback. Price GB £72.00

Finnegans Wake Notebooks - VI.B.29 (FWNB)
by James Joyce, edited by D. Ferrer, V.Deane and G. Lernout
The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition is a fully integrated and cross-referenced edition of all the extant work-books compiled by Joyce after the completion of Ulysses. It will be published as a series of fascicles, one per authorial notebook, three per scribal notebook, fifty-five in all. This will make individual notebooks available to scholars as they appear and allow critical feedback, laying the foundations for an electronic edition that will ...
Hardback. Price GB £72.00

Deutsche und österreichische Exlibris 1500-1599 im Department of Prints and Drawings im Britischen Museum
by Ilse O'Dell
This catalogue, written in German, describes for the first time the outstanding collection of sixteenth-century German and Austrian bookplates in the British Museum, with over 500 catalogue entries and illustrations. Artists such as Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach are represented. The different types of bookplate, including copies, reproductions using later printing techniques and new works in the style of earlier artists, are discussed in ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £95.00, Our Price GB £20.00

The Illustrated Beatus III: Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (HMBEA 3)
by John Williams
Catalogue containing detailed descriptions and complete cycles of illustrations of all surviving manuscripts of Beatus' commentary on the Apocalypse. These are: the Urgell Beatus; the San Millán Beatus; the Escorial Beatus; the Facundus Beatus (Madrid); the Fanlo Beatus (New York) and the Saint-Sever Beatus (Paris). The catalogue entries discuss the location of production, the work of the scribes and illuminators, and details of codicology; ...
Hardback. Price GB £105.00

Book of Beasts: A Facsimile of MS. Bodley 764
with an introduction by Christopher de Hamel
In the Middle Ages, people believed that studying animals allowed them to read the Divine Order as written in the natural world. In image and word, medieval bestiaries illustrated beasts in stunning detail and explained their scientific nature as well as their allegorical significance. This bestiary, dating from the mid-13th century and preserved at the Bodleian Library in Oxford since the early 17th century, is one of the finest and most ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £125.00, Our Price GB £99.00

The Psalter of Robert de Lisle in the British Library
by Lucy Freeman Sandler
The Psalter of Robert de Lisle is an outstanding English fourteenth century illuminated manuscript including narrative miniatures on the Life of Christ and other moral and theological drawings. This new paperback edition includes notes on recent research on the manuscript as well as an updated bibliography. The introduction includes a discussion of style, iconography, patronage, provenance, date and social and artistic context. The manuscript ...
Paperback. Price GB £26.00

The Hunting Book of Gaston Phébus
edited by M Thomas, F Avril and W Schlag
A charming 15th-century manuscript with 87 miniatures, wide decorative borders and beautiful foriated initials. The French text, written by the colourful figure Gaston Phébus between 1387 and 1389, contains technical details about the practice of huntsmanship and exact descriptions of the wild animals hunted. Facsimile of the entire manuscript with commentary on both the text and the miniatures. 356p, 276 col pls (Harvey Miller `Medieval ...
Hardback. Price GB £63.00

The Bible Moralisee (HMMIM 2)
commentary by Gerald B. Guest
The latest addition to this series of `Manuscripts in minaiture' is Codex Vindobonensis 2554, in Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna. It is one of the earliest surviving examples of a unique group of Bibles containing the most extensive cycles of biblical illustrations juxtaposed with theological and allegorical interpretative images. The Bible Moralisée wasproduced in the first half of the 13th century, and contains over 1000 ...
Hardback. Price GB £63.00

The Illustrated Beatus II: Ninth and Tenth Centuries (HM)
Williams, John
The seven earliest surviving Beatus commentaries. 320p, 410 illus (Harvey Miller 1994)
Hardback. Price GB £105.00