Sotheby's (London)

(27 cm), 129 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 74 lots. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (lot 50) the Burdett Psalter and Hours, a Parisian manuscript of c. 1285 which sold to a private collector for £2.75 million (telephone, vs. Jörn Günther). “It is no discredit either to the scholarship or the accuracy of the catalogue to say that it read like a novel; indeed, it was the most gripping catalogue entry we have ever read” (saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1998, p.386). Janet Backhouse “’A very old book’: The Burdett Psalter Hours” in Studies in the Illustration of the Psalter, edited by Brendan Cassidy and Rosemary Muir Wright (Stamford 2000), pp.55-66. ¶ Occasional pencil annotation.