The Art of Illuminated Manuscripts~Illustrated Sacred Writings~J.O. Westwood~1988~Very Good Condition~First Edition~First Print~Free Shippin

The Art of Illuminated Manuscripts~Illustrated Sacred Writings~J. O. Westwood~1988~Very Good Condition~First Edition~First Print~Free Shipping.

The book and dust cover are in very good condition. Tight binding. No markings or inscriptions. Clean pages. There is one deep bump on the lower back cover. The bump has affected the last 30 pages or so with a bump on the lower part of the pages. See photos. 50 color plates. 340 pages.

“John Obadiah Westwood (1805–1893) was a bona fide polymath. An archaeologist, entomologist, editor, artist, and art historian, he was a regular contributor to the Gardner’s Chronicle, a founder of the Entomological Society of London, and the author of books about everything from sessile-eyed crustaceans to the early sculptured stones of Wales.

Westwood’s fascination with Anglo-Saxon and Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts — created in Britain and Ireland between 500 and about 1066 CE — derived in part from a distinctly Victorian national pride. He is insistent in his introduction to Fac-similes of the Miniatures & Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon & Irish Manuscripts (1868) that by publishing these chromolithographic plates, he is giving readers access to “the first chapter of a History of the Fine Arts in this kingdom, extending from the Roman occupation of Great Britain to the Norman conquest.”

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