![[picture: book cover]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/tn/0000-cover-q50-360x500.jpg "[picture: book cover]")
Title: The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times
Date: 1860
Total items: 107
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).
![[picture: Plate 93.---Sixteenth Century No. 5]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/tn/93-Sixteenth-Century-q75-326x500.jpg "[picture: Plate 93.---Sixteenth Century No. 5]")
![[picture: Decorative initial letter B from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/tn/074-medieval-red-blue-initial-letter-b-q75-304x500.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter B from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]")
![[picture: Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/tn/017-Ninth-Century-05-borders-2-q75-500x132.jpg "[picture: Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.]"){kind=small}
![[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter U or V from Plate 65]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/tn/65-Fourteenth-century-23-05-UV-q90-500x389.jpg "[picture: Fourteenth Century Initial Letter U or V from Plate 65]")
![[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter G from XIV. Century No. 1]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/tn/43-letterG-q75-305x315.jpg "[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter G from XIV. Century No. 1]")
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