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SHAW, Henry (1800-1873). Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages. London: Pickering, 1843. 2 volumes, 4°. 93 hand-coloured engraved plates. Original vellum boards, spines elaborately gilt (vol. I bowed and split, spines discoloured), gauffered gilt edges. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Shaw's most ambitious work, described by Ruari McLean as having 'a considerable claim to be called the most handsome book created in the whole of nineteenth century' (Victorian Book Design, p.48). Ray 102.
SHAW, Henry (1800-1873). The Decorative Arts Ecclesiastical and Civil of the Middle Ages. London: Pickering, 1851. 4°. Coloured plates, some folding. Original vellum boards, spine elaborately gilt, gauffered gilt edges. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Ray 234; with another book by Tancred Borenius. (4)
SHAW, Henry (1800-1873). The Decorative Arts Ecclesiastical and Civil of the Middle Ages. London: Pickering, 1851. 4°. Coloured plates, some folding. Original vellum boards, spine elaborately gilt, gauffered gilt edges. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Ray 234; with another book by Tancred Borenius. (4)
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