The binding of the 2002 facsimile edition of the Lindisfarne Gospels sold at £3500 by Canterbury Auction Galleries.
Sold at the high-estimate sum of £3500 at Canterbury Auction Galleries (22.5% buyer’s premium) on February 4 was a German facsimile edition of the Lindisfarne Gospels.
One of 290 copies produced in 2002 by Facsimile Verlag Luzern, it boasts a binding which replicates that found on a Victorian printed edition of 1852.