Author: [THOMPSON (Henry Yates)] Editor.
Title: Facsimiles of Two "Histoires" by Jean Foucquet from Vols. I. and II. of the "Anciennetés des Juifs", Numbered Respectively 247 français in the National Library of France, and 101 in in the Supplemental Volume... of the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson, to Which is Added a Notice with 2 Photogravures and Four Photographic Facsimiles (By Three-Colour Process) from Detached Pages of a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript of "Historie Ancienne jesqu'à Romains".
Description: Privately Printed [at the Chiswick Press]. 1903. 2 Vols., folio and royal 4to, 10; [ii]pp., limited edition of 20 copies, 5 photogravure, 4 coloured photograph plates, each with a leaf of letterpress explanatory text, cont. printed wrapper, cloth spine, enclosed in orig. portfolio, a nice copy. Extremely scarce, limited to 20 set for private distribution.

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