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![[picture: book cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/tn/0000-cover-q50-360x500.jpg "[picture: book cover]")
Images scanned from The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times by W. R. Tymms, with an Essay and Instructions by M. D. Wyatt, Architect. London. Published April 2nd 1860 by Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen.
There are 100 full colour plates in the book done in chromolithography, as well as a chromolithographed title page. I have only scanned a few because my scanner damages the binding. The text is by Matthew Digby Wyatt and the images appear to have been made by W. R. Tymms (and not Symms, as this page used to say).
Title: The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times
Date: 1860
Total items: 132
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/017-Ninth-Century-05-borders-2-q67-756x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.]")
Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.
Border (Figure 2): see overview page for details. [$]
![[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter T from XIV. Century No. 1]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/43-letterT-168x200.jpg "[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter T from XIV. Century No. 1]")
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter T from XIV. Century No. 1
Calligraphic letter T from XIV. Century No. 1. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Full-page gold and coloured medieval border]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/84-fifteenth-century-borders-05-q75-132x200.jpg "[picture: Full-page gold and coloured medieval border]")
Full-page gold and coloured medieval border
It’s easy to imgine that interest in medieval borders, calligraphy and decoration started with William Morris and Edward Johnston in the 1880s, but this book was produced in 1860 and includes such beautiful full-page borders as this illuminaged green, blue and gold example from a fifteenth century book of hours. There are birds and vines, frogs and [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Half Title: The Art of Illumnating]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/000-half-title-q75-228x200.jpg "[picture: Half Title: The Art of Illumnating]")
Half Title: The Art of Illumnating
This ornately engraved coloured design is on the page before the title page, and says: [more...] [$]
![[picture: Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/017-Ninth-Century-05-borders-4-q67-1038x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.]")
Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.
Border (Figure 4): see overview page for details. [$]
Images scanned from The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times by W. R. Tymms, with an Essay and Instructions by M. D. Wyatt, Architect. London. Published April 2nd 1860 by Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen.
There are 100 full colour plates in the book done in chromolithography, as well as a chromolithographed title page. I have only scanned a few because my scanner damages the binding. The text is by Matthew Digby Wyatt and the images appear to have been made by W. R. Tymms (and not Symms, as this page used to say).
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