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A heavenly craft : the woodcut in early printed books : illustrated books purchased by Lessing J. Ro...

A heavenly craft : the woodcut in early printed books :...

A heavenly craft : the woodcut in early printed books : illustrated books purchased by Lessing J. Ro...

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A heavenly craft : the woodcut in early printed books : illustrated books purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald at the sale of the library of C.W. Dyson Perrins / edited by Daniel De Simone.

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Full title

A heavenly craft : the woodcut in early printed books : illustrated books purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald at the sale of the library of C.W. Dyson Perrins / edited by Daniel De Simone.

Publisher

New York : George Braziller ; Washington : Library of Congress, 2004.

Date

2004.

Call Numbers

NQ761.20902/1

Record Identifier

74VKPMrrvkey

MMS ID

991019560249702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xiii, 222 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Contents

Foreword / James H. Billington -- Lessing J. Rosenwald and the "magnificent library" of C. W. Dyson Perrins / Paul Needham -- Venetian and Florentine Renaissance woodcuts for Bibles, liturgical books, and devotional books / Lilian Armstrong -- The stylistic development of German book illustration, 1...

Publication information

Publisher

New York : George Braziller ; Washington : Library of Congress, 2004.

Place of Publication

New York (State)

Date Published

2004.

Access and use

Access Conditions

State Reference Library copy: To be issued in Supervised Use Area.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

"At auction in 1946 and 1947 were books from what Paul Needham calls "the magnificent library" of the noted English book collector C. W. Dyson Perrins, heir to the Lea & Perrins fortune. One of the first important book auctions to follow World War II, the Dyson Perrins sale had among its bidders the agent for Lessing J. Rosenwald, the Philadelphia...

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Full title

A heavenly craft : the woodcut in early printed books : illustrated books purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald at the sale of the library of C.W. Dyson Perrins / edited by Daniel De Simone.

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-215) and index.

Contextual Information

Other version (online)

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

NQ761.20902/1

Record Identifier

74VKPMrrvkey

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKPMrrvkey

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ISBN

0807615366 (alk. paper)

9780807615362 (alk. paper)

DDC

761.209024074753

MMS ID

991019560249702626

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