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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: Clip-art: Victorian Floral Border, Landscape Version]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/intro099-floriated-border-coloured-landscape-q90-288x200.jpg "[picture: Clip-art: Victorian Floral Border, Landscape Version]")
Clip-art: Victorian Floral Border, Landscape Version
A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils! [more...] [$]
![[picture: Decorative uncial initial letter H from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/074-medieval-red-blue-initial-letter-h-uncial-126x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative uncial initial letter H from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]")
Decorative uncial initial letter H from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.
Decorative initial letter H from Fifteenth Century No. 4. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Decorative initial letter ``E'' from 11th century.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/025-eleventh-century-02-e-q75-185x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter ``E'' from 11th century.]")
Decorative initial letter “E” from 11th century.
A letter E in a late uncial tradition, complete with drolleries, or humorous creatures, in the vines in the counters, the spaces nside the letter. This E is in red, with a peach light orange filling, on a blue, red and green background. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter J from XIV. Century No. 1]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/43-letterJ-109x200.jpg "[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter J from XIV. Century No. 1]")
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter J from XIV. Century No. 1
Calligraphic letter J from XIV. Century No. 1. [more...] [$]
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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