Valerius Maximus. Miniatures of the school of Jean Fouquet, illustrating the French version by Simon de Hesdin and Nicholas de Gonesse, contained in a ms. written about A.D. 1475 for Philippe de Comines, reproduced in photogravure, with frontispiece in colour, for Henry Yates Thompson, with an introduction by George F. Warner.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London, B. Quaritch, 1907.
Description
2 p. ., 17 p. col. front., IX pl. 50 cm.

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    • Title vignette.
    • Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
    • "125 copies printed, 100 only being for sale, of which this is no. 9."
    • "The manuscript of Valerius Maximus which contains the miniatures here reproduced is among the treasures of the Harley collection in the British museum, its two volumes bearing the numbers 4374, 4375."--Introd.
    • A reproduction of Harleian ms. 4374-4375.
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    Bibliographical foot-notes.
    LCCN
    13013254 //r51
    OCLC
    6350614
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