Phaidon Paperback (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 308 pages, with 186 illustrations (black and white plates), notes, bibliographical note, index. Large trade paperback (7" x 9-3/4"), wraps a bit creased and with light shelf wear. Underscoring and or marginalia in purple ink on approximately 70 pages are in most instances only small marks in the margins.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Ed. Fine in grey pictorial wraps with black lettering. The entwined biographies of three composers who dominated the mainstream development of German music in the 20th century. Illustrated with nearly 50 B&W photographs. Biographies, Music, German Composers.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 29 cm, 80 pp, 70 ills, 28 in colour. From the blurb: "The British Library houses one of the world's great collections of illuminated manuscripts. And Janet Backhouse has drawn on this rich resource to make a selection of outstanding examples that span over 800 years of medieval book production. She begins with an early Christian masterpiece, the Lindisfarne Gospels, and continues with a representative cross-section that reveals the remarkable variety and richness to be found in medieval manuscripts." Wrappers a little creased, otherwise Good.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG original stiffened wrappers.

Condition: Fine. First paperback edition in publisher's original plain white card wrap covers [softback]. Quarto 10'' x 10''. Contains 160 printed pages of text with colour and monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Contains advice on die-cutting, embossing, pop-up, sculptural effect and special printing techniques. Fine condition book, in Fine condition dust wrapper with minimal wear to the upper spine end. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0714834610 GRAPHIC DESIGN (Visual Arts).…

Black-and-white and olour illustrations, many full-page. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy.

Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 240 colour illustrations, many full-page. Pictorial paperback covers. A fine copy contained within a decorative cloth box made by the calligrapher Ann Otley. I. Books for Missionaries. 7th-9th centuries: the written word as an essential tool for the early missionaries of Britain and Ireland, who produced books of extraordinary sophistication -- II. Books for Emperors. 8th-11th centuries: books as treasure and as luxurious objects of display and diplomatic gifts in the courts of Charlemagne and his successors -- III. Books for Monks. 12th century: the golden age of the monastic book, when monks in their scriptoria produced manuscripts for their libraries -- IV. Books for Students. 13th century: the rise of the universities and the emergence of a professional book trade to meet the new need for textbooks -- V. Books for Aristocrats. 14th century: the Age of Chivalry -- a wealthy and newly literate aristocracy generating a new type of book, the secular romance -- VI. Books for Everybody. 15th century: the emergence of the Book of Hours as a devotional book for ordinary households as well as the aristocracy -- VII. Books for Priests. 13th-16th centuries: the Bibles, Missals, Breviaries, Psalters and other service books and handbooks that sustained the life of the Church -- VIII. Books for Collectors. 15th-16th centuries: the revival of classical learning and the creation of de luxe manuscripts for wealthy humanist patrons.…