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" This is perhaps the finest book in the world, and the most interesting to the Scholar and the man Of taste. Three hundred fac-similes of the choicest MSS. "
A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists ... - Page 439
by John William Bradley - 1889
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Bernard Quaritch

Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - 1868 - 840 pages
...inferior, as a number of the stones got broken during their shipment to England. One of the finest books in the world, and the most interesting to the Scholar...Manuscripts in Europe, need no other recommendation than the statement of the fact. The work cost nearly Twenty Thousand Pounds in getting up. 189 SILVESTRE'S...
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Bernard Quaritch

Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - 1879 - 714 pages
...185Í' This is, perhape, the finest book in the world, and the mast interesting to the scholar and tbman of taste. Three hundred facsimiles, of the choicest Manuscripts in Europe, need no o¡l>: recommendation than to »tat« the fact. Tho work cost nearly twenty thousand pounds in grtriîup,...
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A Catalogue of the Entire Library of Andrew Wight, of Philadelphia

Andrew Wight, Joseph Sabin - 1864 - 350 pages
...half morocco. This is one of the finest books in the world, and most interesting to the scholar and man of taste. Three hundred fac-similes of the choicest...need no other recommendation than to state the fact. 4418* SOTHEBY (Samuel). PRINCIPIA TYPOGRAPHIA. 3 vols. folio, half morocco. Lond. 1858. Of this splendid...
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Bernard Quaritch

Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - 1877 - 846 pages
...folio, elrgantly hf. bound morocco extra, gilt edges, £25. 15« 1S50 This is, perhaps, the fiucst book in the world, and the most interesting to the...no other recommendation than to state the fact. The best work on the manuscript Literature of Ancient and Mediaeval times. The finest possible specimens...
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Catalogue of the Library of the Late Alexander Farnum, Esq., of Providence ...

Alexander Farnum - 1884 - 348 pages
...represented. The number of reproductions of ITALIAN, FRENCH and GERMAN MINIATURES is very considerable. This is, perhaps, the finest book in the world, and...no other recommendation than to state the fact. The French edition of this work cost nearly twenty thousand pounds in getting up. Only 250 copies were...
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A Monograph on Privately Illustrated Books: A Plea for Bibliomania

Daniel Melancthon Tredwell - 1892 - 516 pages
..."Hierocles," 1475, by the first Roman printer ; and many others. !" Universal Paleography," by MJB Silvestre. "This is, perhaps, the finest book in the world, and...most interesting to the scholar and the man of taste. It contains three hundred facsimiles of the choicest manuAmong the privately illustrated books were...
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Catalogue, Issues 176-186

Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - 1898 - 806 pages
...finest style of art, half red morocco extra, gilt edges ' 1850 30 О О This is one of the finest books in the world, and the most interesting to the scholar...no other recommendation than to state the fact. The woi-k cost nearly twenty thousand pounds in getting up, and the expense was chiefly defrayed by His...
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Catalogue, Issues 165-174

Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - 1896 - 710 pages
...the British Museum. 2 vols, atlas folio, elegantly half bound morocco extra, gilt edges, £30. 1850 This is, perhaps, the finest book in the world, and...hundred facsimiles, of the choicest Manuscripts in Kurope, need no other recommendation than to state the fact. The work cost nearly twenty thousand pound«...
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The Rushton M. Dorman, Esq. Library Sale Catalogue (1886): The ..., Volume 1

Samuel J. Rogal - 2002 - 508 pages
...represented. The number of reproductions of ltalian, French and German Miniatures is ever considerable. This is, perhaps, the finest book in the world, and...to the scholar and the man of taste. Three hundred facsimi les of the choicest manuscripts in Europe need no other recommendation than to state the fact....
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