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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780789213082
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Abbeville Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0789213087
ISBN-13
9780789213082
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242727184
Product Key Features
Book Title
Grand Medieval Bestiary (Dragonet Edition) : Animals in Illuminated Manuscripts
Number of Pages
620 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Techniques / Painting, Book, History / Medieval, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, European
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Design, Art
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.9 in
Item Weight
113.2 Oz
Item Length
12.5 in
Item Width
8.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"This is a huge and beautiful book that feels almost like a trip to the Cloisters between two covers." New York Daily News "Rarely have earnest scholarship and sheer wonder come together as comfortably as they have here. And as magical as the original artworks surely are, this unique volume is literally better than the real thing, since it allows us to ogle them closely." Fine Art Connoisseur "Every year I try to reserve the adjective "stunning" for one book. This is it." The Seattle Times holiday gift guide, "This is a huge and beautiful book that feels almost like a trip to the Cloisters between two covers." -- New York Daily News "Rarely have earnest scholarship and sheer wonder come together as comfortably as they have here. And as magical as the original artworks surely are, this unique volume is literally better than the real thing, since it allows us to ogle them closely." -- Fine Art Connoisseur "Every year I try to reserve the adjective "stunning" for one book. This is it." -- The Seattle Times holiday gift guide, This is a huge and beautiful book that feels almost like a trip to the Cloisters between two covers., Rarely have earnest scholarship and sheer wonder come together as comfortably as they have here. And as magical as the original artworks surely are, this unique volume is literally better than the real thing, since it allows us to ogle them closely., Heck and Cordonnier's creation allows modern readers to understand a little of the preciousness of a medieval book. . . The Grand Medieval Bestiary feels magical, valuable, and important.
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Now in an affordable edition, a splendid pageant of the animal kingdom as the Middle Ages saw it As the 587 colorful images in this magnificent volume reveal, animals were a constant--and delightful--presence in illuminated manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages. They were illustrated not only in bestiaries--the compendiums of animal fact and fable that were exceedingly popular in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries--but in every sort of manuscript, sacred and profane, from the Gospels to the Romance of the Rose . This book is arranged in manner of a proper bestiary, with essays on the medieval lore and iconography of one hundred creatures alphabetized by their Latin names, from the alauda , or lark, whose morning song was thought to be a hymn to Creation, to the vultur , whose taste for carrion made it a symbol of the sinner who indulges in worldly pleasures. The selection includes a number of creatures that would now be considered fantastic, including the griffin, the manticore, and of course the fabled unicorn., As the 587 colorful images in this magnificent volume reveal, animals were a constant--and delightful--presence in illuminated manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages. They were illustrated not only in bestiaries--the compendiums of animal fact and fable that were exceedingly popular in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries--but in every sort of manuscript, sacred and profane, from the Gospels to the Romance of the Rose . This book is arranged in manner of a proper bestiary, with essays on the medieval lore and iconography of one hundred creatures alphabetized by their Latin names, from the alauda , or lark, whose morning song was thought to be a hymn to Creation, to the vultur , whose taste for carrion made it a symbol of the sinner who indulges in worldly pleasures. The selection includes a number of creatures that would now be considered fantastic, including the griffin, the manticore, and of course the fabled unicorn.
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