Author: COCKERELL (Sydney Carlyle)
Title: A Psalter and Hours Executed Before 1270 for a Lady Connected with St. Louis, Probably his Sister Isabelle of France, Founder of the Abbey of Longchamp, Now in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson... with Photographs of all the Miniatures by Emery Walker.
Description: Printed at the Chiswick Press. 1905. Large oblong 4to, 36pp., double-column text, 25 plates, each with a reproduction of 2 MS pages, title printed in red and black, free endpapers browned, occasional foxing, orig. green roan-backed printed boards lightly stained. The text considers the MS in relation to the companion psalter of St. Louis in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Cockerell (1867-1962), secretary to the Kelmsott Press 1891-6, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1908-37, partner with Sir Emery Walker in process engraving business.

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