Illuminated Manuscripts.- Millar (Eric George) The Library of A. Chester Beatty. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts, 3 vol. only (of 4: lacking second plate vol.), signed presentation copy inscribed "To Mr. Frank Partridge from Edith Beatty Aug. 21st 1945" in ink on front free endpaper of first plate vol., printed on handmade paper, frontispieces and 100 plates, a few colour and heightened with gold, some with tissue guards, Chester Beatty's compliments slip loosely inserted, scattered finger-soiling and marginal browning, original red morocco-backed cloth, spines with eight raised bands, t.e.g., others uncut, extremities rubbed and bumped with a few marks or stains, folio, Privately Printed by John Johnson at the Oxford University Press, 1927-30.
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