[Sale Catalogue of] The Dyson Perrins Collection. Illuminated Manuscripts. Parts 1-3. With an Introduction by Professor Francis Wormald.
( Illuminated Manuscripts ) DYSON PERRINS, C.W.
9 December 1958; 1 December 1959; 29 November 1960. Sale Codes: CAROLUS; JOHANNES; NIVARDUS respectively.
COMPLETE SET OF THE ILLUSTRATED ISSUE WITH PRICE LISTS
Published: Sotheby's, 1958-1960
Stock code: 6576
Price: £130.00
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition [Illustrated Issue], with portrait frontispiece, 2 fine coloured frontispieces, 183 fine plates (16 in colour) and several facsimiles in the text; original printed boards, corners lightly bruised else a very good, bright, clean set.
WITH THE PRINTED LISTS OF PURCHASERS AND PRICES REALISED LOOSELY INSERTED. Complete set of the MSS sale catalogues of one of the greatest private collections of the first half of the twentieth century. The sale realised a total of £888,370. COMPLETE SETS OF THE ILLUSTRATED ISSUE WITH PRICE LISTS ARE VERY SCARCE.