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The miracles of Our Lord

Ornamental borders, and illustrations, in color · "Remarks of the illuminator. Descriptive index of the miracles" signed : H.N.H. [i.e. Henry Noel Humphreys] · "The title-page contains a figure of the Saviour ... in a niche, ornamented in a style corresponding with the rest of the volume."--p. iii · "It has been sought to render the [papier mâché] cover also appropriate, by enriching it with medallions representing the principal miracles; it has been partly taken from a ... cover in carved ivory, executed in the 12th century ... The designs of the medallions are original."--p. iv · Possibly printed by Owen Jones.--Cf. Friedman, Joan. Color printing in England. New Haven, 1978, p. 166 · Library's copy 1 is bound with black embossed calf covers with oval paper onlay in center of each cover. Library's copy 2 bound by Messrs Jackson & Sons with paper mache covers · 31, iv pages : 18 cm · 'The "illuminated" gift books which became a feature of British publishing during the 1840s were essentially gift books whose text was often, but not always, taken from the Bible, and whose pages were decorated in colour in a style closely or distantly resembling that of a medieval manuscript. They w

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