An edition of The art of illumination, as practised during the Middle Ages (1866)

The art of illumination, as practised during the Middle Ages

with a description of the metals, pigments, and processes employed by the artists at different periods

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An edition of The art of illumination, as practised during the Middle Ages (1866)

The art of illumination, as practised during the Middle Ages

with a description of the metals, pigments, and processes employed by the artists at different periods

2nd. ed., with coloured illustrations

by

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  • 1 Want to read
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Bell and Daldy
Language
English
Pages
66

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Subjects

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Initials

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The art of illumination, as practised during the Middle Ages: with a description of the metals, pigments, and processes employed by the artists at different periods
1870, Bell and Daldy
in English - 2nd. ed., with coloured illustrations
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1866, Bell and Daldy
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Edition Notes

First published in 1866 with title: A handbook of the art of illuminatinion.

Lacks the 4 page preface by Shaw found in the 1866 ed.; 12 of the wood engraved designs are replicated in colour by means of chromolithographs, with imprint: Vincent Brooks, Day & Son.

Added engraved t.p. and 15 wood engravings enumerated in table of contents, giving source of original and name of engraver for each plate.

Text and wood engravings printed at the Chiswick Press.

MASS copy 1: With the bookplate of "BM/CESV", and the hand-illuminated signature: Chas. Fewtrell, Liverpool. Bound in brown sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.

MASS copy 2: Bound in brown cloth as copy 1.

MASS copy 3: Rebound, with the ink stamp of W.H. Smith and Son; lacking chromolithographs. With the bookplate of C.H. St. John Hornby. Ex-libris William Morris and H. Harvey Frost.

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A handbook of the art of illumination

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viii [i.e. 4], 66 p., [28] leaves of plates :
Number of pages
66

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OL16710402M

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