Handbook of Medieval Alphabets and Devices

Author(s): Shaw, Sir Henry

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Edition:	1st Edition
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Bernard Quaritch
Publication Year:	1853
Book ID:	002861
Catalogue(s):	History - British ◇ Books on Books, Book Collecting, Print and Design History

[viii], with 36 tissue-guarded, full page, plate illustrations of medieval alphabets and devices and their uses, most in colour. Blue buckram cloth boards with blind embossed decorations and gilt lettering to spine (boards rubbed at edges, especially on corners and spine folds and tips, sunned on spine, modern endpapers). Internally some foxing mostly affecting preliminary pages only. A handsome, impressive volume. With an introductory essay giving a brief history of the development of the application of colour to written documents. Large 4to.

Keywords:

alphabet design historical lettering devices medieval history medieval documents