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Like new first edition hardback complete with unclipped dust jacket. 'A magnificent full-colour facsimile of the late fifteenth-century Beauchamp Pageant, depicting the life of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (13821439). The manuscript's detailed drawings provide a remarkable visual record of medieval costume, buildings, ships, warfare and everyday life, accompanied by scholarly commentary.' The book measures 11½" x 9", it has xi + 179 pages, the manuscript is extensively reproduced in colour, with reproductions and comments upon all 55 folios of drawings from the British Library manuscript. The jacket, binding and contents are in superb condition Like New / Like new.…

Condition: Fine. 4to., pp.xi,179, green cloth, gilt, colour facsimile, further b/w and colour; a fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.