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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-7-q75-649x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.]")
Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.
Border (Figure 7): see overview page for details. [$]
![[picture: Decorative initial letter ``A'' from 11th century.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/025-eleventh-century-03-a-q75-229x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter ``A'' from 11th century.]")
Decorative initial letter “A” from 11th century.
This decorative capital letter A features Celtic knotwork, red, green and blue, with a peach fill. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Decorative initial letter ``J'' from 11th century.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/026-eleventh-century-05-j-q73-46x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter ``J'' from 11th century.]"){kind=small}
Decorative initial letter “J” from 11th century.
A deep blue with a red and green background and heavy patterning around this Uncial letter J, whose tail is made of a dragon biting the lower corner of the vertical stem of the [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter O from XIV. Century No. 1]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/43-letterO-q75-197x200.jpg "[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter O from XIV. Century No. 1]")
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter O from XIV. Century No. 1
Calligraphic letter O from XIV. Century No. 1. [more...] [$]
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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