The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance. / By Paul Lacroix (Bibliophile Jacob), ... Illustrated with nineteen chromolithographic prints by F. Kellerhoven and upwards of four hundred engravings on wood.
Paul L. Jacob (1806-1884)
Category
Books
Date
1875
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101382
Summary
Bibliographic description
xix, [1], 549, [1] p., 19 leaves of plates : ill. (19 col.) ; 4to. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century full green morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border on boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt panelled spine compartments; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The arts in the Middle Ages' and 'Lacroix'; single gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gauffered gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Birdsall, Northampton & London'.
Makers and roles
Paul L. Jacob (1806-1884), author James Dafforne (1803/4 - London 1880), translator Franz Kellerhoven (1814-1872), illustrator