Product Description
The first edition of this beautifully illustrated guide to illuminated manuscripts and the process of their creation, illustrated with vibrant chromolithographs.
The first edition of this beautifully illustrated work.
Illustrated by Borders Initial Letters, with an illustrated title page and 95 chromolithograph plates.
Collated, complete.
A comprehensive guide to the art of illuminating, including details on the history and creative process.
Rebacked, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with endpapers renewed.
Alphabets selected by W.
R.
Tymms, the nineteenth century technician, artist and designer.
With an essay and instructions by Matthew Digby Wyatt.
Wyatt was a renowned British architect and art historian, and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge.
Rebacked, retaining the publisher's original cloth boards.
Externally, excellent, with light fading to board perimeters.
Endpapers renewed.
Internally, firmly bound.
Pages clean and bright, with spotting to plates.
Very Good Indeed
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