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Title:

CELTIC ALPHABETS

By:

Aidan Meehan

Format:

Paperback

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£7.95

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£5.80

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ISBN 10:

0500279802

ISBN 13:

9780500279809

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Publisher:

THAMES & HUDSON LTD

Pub. date:

19 January, 1998

Series:

Celtic Design S.

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Description:

A study of Celtic manuscripts with a collection of 16 alphabets of decorated letters. Some of the Celtic styles represented are knotwork, animal, spiral, maze and plant and the alphabet of lions from the Book of Kells is recreated.

Synopsis:

This is study of Celtic manuscripts with a collection of 16 alphabets of decorated letters. Some of the Celtic styles represented are knotwork, animal, spiral, maze and plant and the alphabet of lions from the Book of Kells is recreated. From 6th-century birds to late medieval dragons, from early Celtic spirals to the later Tree of Life - the text shows the evolution of the letter forms, from Roman to Irish Gothic.

Illustrations:

502 illustrations

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Thames & Hudson Ltd

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