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TESNIERE, MARIE-HELENE AND P. GIFFORD [EDS.]; GIFF Creating French Culture: Treasures of the Bibliotheque Nationale de Fr
GREAT LIBRARIES]. Creating French Culture: Treasures of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Edited by Marie-Hélène Tesniere and Prosser Gifford. 480 pp. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs. Includes a catalogue of 207 items. Folio, bound in publisher's grey cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. A splendid illustrated overview of the literary and artistic heritage of France, exploring the changing relationship between power and culture in France as seen in the two hundred plus treasures sent from its national library, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France for exhibition in Washington, DC at the Library of Congress. Shown and described are illuminated manuscripts, rare books, metals, maps and prints of extraordinary quality and importance.
Offered for US$ 65.00 by: Ursus Books and Prints Ltd. - Book number: 42286