
THE MASTER OF MARY OF BURGUNDY
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George Braziller, New York, 1970, 1st thus. ISBN 0-8076-0578-6. Reproduced by permission of The Bodleian Library, Oxford, England. Small hard cover, including Acknowledgments, Note on the Binding, The Hours of Engelbert of Nassau, The Plates and Legends, Subject Index to the Plates, and Selective Bibliography. Very good plus; a few small colour chips along front spine edge; binding tight; interior clean and unmarked. Blue Morocco leather stamped with 24-karat gold. Top edge gilt; bound in silk marker ribbon. Slip case has a bit of soil/age toning, sticker residue; a bit of off-setting on rear. Book interior clean and unmarked. ‘The manuscript from which a selection of pages is here reproduced, is outstanding among the many fine books illuminated in the Netherlands in the late fifteenth century. The technical accomplishment and the imaginative originality of the artist, who is known as “The Master of Mary of Burgundy,” has already made him one of the best known and most admired of medieval illuminators.’ (from The Hours of Engelbert of Nassau)