IN AUGUST COMPANY - PLUMMER JOHN
The collections of The Pierpont Morgan Library
KORTE INHOUD
The Pierpont Morgan Library, once the private treasure house of American financier and collector J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), is a major repository of artistic, literary, and historical materials dating from ancient times to the modern era. There are objects of breathtaking beauty and visual splendor, such as the jeweled covers of the magnificent Lindau Gospels, the lavishly illuminated Farnese Hours, and master drawings from Durer to Degas. Such works as the Gutenberg Bible and the first printing of the Declaration of Independence document turning points in the course of Western civilization. Still other works stand as unique records of the world's great creative geniuses, for example the sole surviving manuscript fragment of Milton's Paradise Lost and the original score of Mozart's majestic Haffner Symphony. In the words of Mark Twain, it is, indeed, an ''august company.''
This book, written for the general reader and scholar alike, reproduces and discusses over 175 of the finest objects from the Library'...
This book, written for the general reader and scholar alike, reproduces and discusses over 175 of the finest objects from the Library'...
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1993, 310pp. Cloth. Back of dust jacket a little sun-faded. Else a very good copy. [Auteur: LUHRS, Kathleen (coordinated by)] [Uitgever: The Piermont Morgan Library / New York] [Titel: In August Company. The Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library]
Original publisher's black cloth hardback, gilt title spine, gilt ornament frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, 4to: frontispiece, 310pp., [ij], very richly illustrated, index illustrations. Contents: Paintings & Art Objects - Ancient Near East Seals & Tablets - Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts - Printed Books - Children's Books - Bindings - Authograph Manuscripts - Music Manuscripts - Gilbert & Sullivan Collection - Drawings & Prints. Very fine copy., New York, The Piermont Morgan Library - Harry N. Abram...
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Very good condition, Has not been read before.
This is the hardcover version of the book kept in a nice case.
Foedraal is in perfecte staat. ISBN 0-8109-3863-4
This is the hardcover version of the book kept in a nice case.
Foedraal is in perfecte staat. ISBN 0-8109-3863-4
