HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel. The Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages; 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, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1849. 2°, illuminated frontispiece by Owen Jones, 39 chromolithographed plates and one plain plate (occasional spotting), contemporary red half morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt foliate design in compartments (rubbed, some losses), g.e.