University of California Press
1969
ISBN: 0520013794
English
484 pages
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Never before has the whole subject of book illustration been treated so as to give it more than specialist interest . . . this is the only book to link the earliest illustrated manuscripts like an Egyptian papyrus roll of 1980 B.C. with the latest King Penguin. . . . Few will quarrel with his judgements and all will admire the sense of proportion Mr Bland has maintained throughout his book.

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