BIBLIOGRAPHY – Illuminated Manuscripts. – A group of 16 works in 18 volumes, about or relating to early manuscripts and illuminated manuscripts, comprising:
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BIBLIOGRAPHY – Illuminated Manuscripts. – A group of 16 works in 18 volumes, about or relating to early manuscripts and illuminated manuscripts, comprising:

THOMPSON, Sir Edward Maunde. English Illuminated Manuscripts. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1895. 8°. Numerous colour illustrations. Original boards. Provenance: A.H. Bright (bookplate). LIMITED EDITION, number 85 of 300 copies. -- FORBES-LEITH, W. The Gospel book of Saint Margaret. Being a facsimile reproduction of St. Margaret’s Copy of the Gospels preserved in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1896. 8°. Numerous illustrations. Original vellum; cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 51 of 90 small paper copies. Provenance: A.H. Bright (bookplate). -- PRIEBSCH, Robert. Deutsche Handschriften in England…Erster Band Ashburnham-Palace Cambridge Cheltenham Oxford Wigan [-Zweiter Band Das British Museum]. Erlangen: Verlag von Fr. Junge, 1896. 2 volumes, 8°. Illustrated. Contemporary green half morocco, top edges gilt. Provenance: H. Yates Thompson (correspondence from the author tipped in). -- THOMPSON, Henry Yates. Thirty-two Miniatures from the Book of Hours of Joan II., Queen of Navarre, A Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century. London: Chiswick Press, 1899. 2 volumes, small 2°. Numerous illustrations. Contemporary leather-backed boards. Provenance: H. Thompson Yates (presentation inscription dated 24 October 1899, to:) -- A.H. Bright. CUVELIER, Jean. Illustrations from the Life of Bertrand Duguesclin…from a manuscript of about 1400 A.D. in the library of Henry Yates Thompson. London: Chiswick Press, 1909. Small 2°. Numerous illustrations. Original cloth. Provenance: H. Yates Thompson (presentation inscription to:) A.H. Bright. Sold with 11 others.
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