PÄCHT, OTTO: The Master of Mary of Burgundy. London, Faber & Faber Limited, 1948. 25 x 15,5 cm. 72 pp. + 4 colour plates + 48 plates in b/w. Publisher's cloth, pictorial dustjacket tipped in as endleaves at beginning and end. Provenance: Swedish librarian and book historian Sten G. Lindberg, with some neat annotations in pencil. ¶ "The Master of Mary of Burgundy, perhaps the most brilliant of the miniaturists employed by the art-loving Burgundian court, is the founder of the so-called Ghent Bruges School of Illumination, which flourished in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries and won fame all over Europe. The book now published is the first monograph on the leading artistic personality of this school.[...] A considerable number of the reproductions are from hitherto unknown manuscripts illuminated by the hand of the Master."
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