Product Description
London, The Folio Society, 2012.
Small folio, 7 leaves printed in gilt and colour on vellum (ranging from 200 to 235 mm × 145 to 180 mm), individually presented in folding bevelled window mounts (external dimensions a uniform 325 × 250 mm), plus a DVD ('a short film about the creation of the Folio Society facsimile', in a folding colour-pictorial card slipcase).
All items are in fine condition, housed in a fine cloth Solander box with a printed paper title-label on the spine.
Number 114 of only 480 copies of this acclaimed facsimile publication.
'William de Brailes was at the forefront of a great artistic flourishing in 13th-century England.
One of the very few illuminators to sign his work, his name appears in several records between c.
1230 and 1260, making him the best-documented artist of the period.
De Brailes's consummate skill as an artist and craftsman is evidenced in seven leaves that survived from a Psalter completed around 1240.
Regarded as the finest examples of his work .
the leaves are restored to their original glory and printed on vellum using a revolutionary and now patented printing process' (from the prospectus).
Offered together with the companion volume of commentary by Nigel J.
Morgan (octavo, 128 pages plus 23 colour plates; a fine copy in the fine slipcase).
Loosely inserted in the Solander box are the six-page gate-fold prospectus ('The first medieval manuscript printed on vellum'), and a form letter of apology from the publisher ('All the leaves were returned to the printers in Italy for individual assessment.
Those found to be flawed have been replaced').
[A small quantity].
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