[Rarebooks] Offered: Fine bindings of the Middle Ages

[Nina W. Matheson]

Friends and Colleagues,

Today we offer for your consideration:


Steenbock, Frauke. Der kirkliche Prachteinband im 
Frühen Mittelalter von den Anfängen bis zum 
Beginn der Gotik. [Berlin] Deutscher Verlag für 
Kunstwissenschaft [1965]. Original red cloth. 
Bumped at the foot of the backstrip, label on the 
backstrip rubbed, otherwise near fine, without 
dust jacket. First edition. [238] pp., followed 
by 176 full-page plates of treasure bindings on 
manuscripts from the 6th to the 12th Centuries. 
Figures in the text. 127 bindings are described 
in the catalog p. 65-[227]. Introductory material p. 9-64.  (67113) $95.00


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