The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (page 1/13)
![[picture: book cover]](http://cdn-6.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: 132
out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
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![[picture: Decorative initial letter C from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]](http://cdn-5.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/tn/074-medieval-red-blue-initial-letter-c-q75-368x500.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter C from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]")
![[picture: G to M from XIV. Century No. 1.]](http://cdn-4.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/tn/43-T-Y-500x102.jpg "[picture: G to M from XIV. Century No. 1.]")
![[picture: Plate 74.---Fifteenth Century No. 4 (one of 2)]](http://cdn-3.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/tn/074a-Fifteenth-century-no-4-overview-q75-500x396.jpg "[picture: Plate 74.---Fifteenth Century No. 4 (one of 2)]")
![[picture: Decorative initial letter I from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]](http://cdn-3.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/tn/074-medieval-red-blue-initial-letter-i-q75-314x500.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter I from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]")
![[picture: Decorative initial letter E from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]](http://cdn-3.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/tn/074-medieval-red-blue-initial-letter-e-q75-313x500.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter E from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]")
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noneImages 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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