Item #31280 Color of the Middle Ages; A Survey of Book Illumination Based on Color Facsimiles of Medieval Manuscripts. Carl Nordenfalk.

Color of the Middle Ages; A Survey of Book Illumination Based on Color Facsimiles of Medieval Manuscripts

Pittsburgh: University Art Gallery, Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Building, 1976. First edition. Soft cover. 56p, 8 black-and-white ills. + color cover. Good (covers soiled). Item #31280

Published to accompany an exhibition of 86 facsimiles, with a checklist of them. The text surveys the various techniques used from the 1920s on--handmade facsimiles, woodcuts and engravings, lithography, and photography. Most of the displayed books were 1960s-70s facsimiles. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Price: $12.50

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