ISBN10: 1981060022, ISBN13: 9781981060023, [publisher: Independently published] Softcover 108 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2018]

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Gabriel and the Hour Book (Yesterday's Classics). ISBN 1599150425 9781599150420 [GB]

ISBN10: 1599150425, ISBN13: 9781599150420, [publisher: Yesterday's Classics] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Relates the story of the making of an 'hour book' as a wedding gift from King Louis of France to Lady Anne of Brittany and the good fortune it brought to little Gabriel, Brother Stephen's color grinder. Inspired by the bunch of violets and cuckoo-buds Gabriel brings into the workroom, Brother Stephen conceives a new idea for an illuminated border. Instead of painting the border with scrolls and birds and flowers in the conventional way, he would decorate the book with borders of gold on which he would paint in realistic fashion the meadow wildflowers, and bees and butterflies, and all the little flying creatures. As Brother Stephen's color grinder, Gabriel makes the ink, grinds the gold, gathers the flowers, and prepares the colors for him. After the book is completed, Gabriel slips into the book a sheet on which he has penned a prayer to Lady Anne: 'I, Gabriel Viaud, am Brother Stephen's colour-grinder; and I have made the ink for this book, and the glue, and caught the eels, and ground the gold and colours, and ruled the lines and gathered the flowers for the borders, and so I pray the Lord God will be kind and let my father out of prison in Count Pierre's castle, and tell Count Pierre to give us back our meadow and sheep, for we cannot pay the tax, and mother says we will ...

ISBN10: 1334266883, ISBN13: 9781334266881, [publisher: Forgotten Books] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
[Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2018]

Yesterday's Classics, Date: 2005-11-11. Paperback. Used:Good. 2005. Yesterday's Classics ISBN 1599150425 9781599150420 [US]

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