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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: 133
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Decorative initial letter X from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/074-medieval-red-blue-initial-letter-x-121x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter X from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]")
Decorative initial letter X from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.
Decorative initial letter X from Fifteenth Century No. 4. [more...]
[$]![[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter M from Plate 65]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/65-Fourteenth-century-23-02-M-q85-259x200.jpg "[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter M from Plate 65]")
Fourteenth Century Initial Letter M from Plate 65
A calligraphic decorative letter “M” from a 14th century manuscript, reproduced in this 1860 book.
[$]![[picture: Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/017-Ninth-Century-05-borders-6-q67-1912x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.]")
![[picture: Decorative initial monogram TH from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/074-medieval-red-blue-initial-letter-th-130x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial monogram TH from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]")
Decorative initial monogram TH from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.
Decorative initial monogram “TH” (I think) from Fifteenth Century No. 4. [more...]
[$]![[picture: Vintage border with peacock-feather styilized flowers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/intro100-border-peacock-eyes-q75-138x200.jpg "[picture: Vintage border with peacock-feather styilized flowers]")
Vintage border with peacock-feather styilized flowers
This full-page Victorian engraved border features flowers that are drawn with lines to shade them and with tendrils that give an effect reminding me of the “eyes” in a peacock’s tail feathers. [more...]
[$]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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