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Softcover in gold gatefold pictorial wraps. Minor wear, slight cocking to spine. 329 pp. Includes 159 black-and-white and 38 full-color images of illuminated manuscripts pages and details. From inside the dust jacket: "This book examines attitudes toward and treatments of medieval manuscript illumination in France and England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and in early twentieth-century America." Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum at Northwestern University from January 11 to March 4, 2001. Beautifully produced book that investigates the illuminations progression from relics to invaluable art objects.
