MUTHERICH, FLORENTINE & GAEHDE, JOACHIM.E. — Carolingian Painting
London, Chatto & Windus. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0701122412) Soft Cover, 11 x 8 inches. Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 127pp. The story of illuminated books from the Court of Charlemagne in the late 8th and early 9th centuries and his successors during which period scholarship and the arts were revived Descriptive introduction over about twenty pages. With forty-eight full colour full page images of illuminated manuscripts. Fine.