Scribes Script Books by Avrin Leila (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Malla Carl and Noah Ophir (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback in white cloth with inset red cloth panel with blindstamped pictorial decoration and gilt borders. Titles and decoration in gilt to front cover and spine. Pictorial dutsjacket. 356pp including index. Illustrated in black and white. A very good copy in a very good dustjacket. Heavy book - please contact us for postage cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Malla Carl; Noah Ophir (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st printing (1991). 356pp. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Condition: New.

Leinen. Condition: Gut. 219 S., zahlr. Ill. guter Zustand, Schutzumschlag leicht lichtrandig, Namenszug im Vorsatz Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 711.

VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY- MINIMAL MARKINGS, quarto, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, red blind stamp illus & gilt rule to front board, frontispiece, xxxii + 356pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl label residue to front board & spine, any library markings erased with black marker pen- minimal).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Grey cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, upper board inlaid with a blind decorated leather panel. Pictorial dust-jacket. A fine copy with a text synopsis loosely inserted. Writing; The alphabet; The book in the ancient world; Mesopotamia; The Egyptian book; The Hebrew book; The Greek and Hellenistic book; The Roman book; Latin script; Codices manu scripti : books written by hand; Manuscript illumination; The Islamic book; Papermaking; Bookbinding; On the eve of printing.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. First edition. Small, light stain on front cover and two small scuff marks on back cover, not covering text. Bottom corners of front and back covers are bumped. Spine is bumped and slightly shaken, but binding is secure. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Chicago; American Library Association & London; The British Library, 1991. 28,5x22,5 cm. xxxii, 356, (2, 2 blanks) pp. Publisher's decorated linen with printed dustjacket. The jacket has a small chip at top front corner, and a few insignificant creases on front panel. A fine copy. ". after chapters on the origins of the book, the history of writing, the book in the ancient world, the development of scripts and styles of illumination, and the making of manuscripts through the centuries, the author goes on to deal with the cultural traditions of Hebrew and Islamic bookmaking, and the techniques of bookbinding and papermaking, giving detailed practical explanations of all the technological processes involved. A very full bibliography completes the work." (front flap).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. AVRIN, Leila. Scribes, Script and Books. The Book Arts from Antiquity to the Renaissance Chicago/London, American Library Association/The British Library, 1991. Folio. xxxii, 356, (4) p., with frontispiece and numerous photographic reproductions of artefacts and sketches andf drawings by Malla Carl and Noah Ophir. Coated cloth gilt over boards, blind-tooled image on red paint background on upper cover. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 356 pages; Minor handling to the cloth covers. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout.