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book coverThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Showing the binding with intricate gold tooling.

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Added: 2004-08-01

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Half Title: The Art of IllumnatingThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This ornately engraved coloured design is on the page before the title page, and says: The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe From the Earliest Times Note that this 1860 book was not printed w [...]

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Added: 2012-07-06

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Red border from Page 27The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

The first chapter of the book has a decorative border around each page. This is a floral red border. You could use it as a photo border, although you might want to change the colour if you do that. [...]

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Added: 2007-02-26

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Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique greenThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is a version of the red border from Page 27 coloured green. There are also a brown and a black and white version. To make your own coloured version of this old page border, see the notes for the [...]

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Added: 2008-03-04

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Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brownThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is a version of the red border from Page 27 coloured a sepia brown. There are also a green and a black and white version. To make your own coloured version of this old page border, see the notes [...]

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Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and WhiteThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is a version of the red border from Page 27 in black and white (actually grayscale, desaturated and darkened). There are also a green and a brown version. To make your own version of this old pag [...]

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Added: 2008-03-04

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Victorian border around page 49 (detail, coloured)The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

I coloured this detail from a Victorian border to give a better idea of the detail, and to show something that could be done with it. If you have used one of these borders, use the Comment link below [...]

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Added: 2010-02-24

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Victorian border - floralThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A Victorian border (from 1860); the book has these borders printed around each page in the introduction, with several different borders used in sequence. I combined the borders for the left and right [...]

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Added: 2010-02-24

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Victorian floral border, redThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A version of a printed floral Victorian border used to surround the page of an 1860 book. This version is coloured red like the original. Like many late nineteenth-century designs, this border is cle [...]

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Added: 2010-02-24

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Clip-art: Victorian Floriated BorderThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils! The original (this version) was black; there are also brown and green border version, and a sidways, or po [...]

Keywords: borders, floral, floriated borders, decoration, floriated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2011-02-17

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Clip-art: Victorian Floriated Border in Green and BrownThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils! This is the original portrait version but coloured, with the leaves and flowers in green and the stems in [...]

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Clip-art: Victorian Floral Border, Landscape VersionThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils! This is the original portrait version but coloured, with the leaves and flowers in green and the stems in [...]

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Vintage border with peacock-feather styilized flowersThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

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. I also [...]

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Added: 2015-05-28

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Vintage border with peacock-feather style flowers, in blueThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is a blue version of the Victorian vinatege full-page floral border.

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Added: 2015-05-28

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Plate 17.—Ninth Century. Nº 5.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

All except Figure 7 are from the Bible of Charles the Bald, and Figure 7 is from the Gospels of Lothaire. [more detail on request] I have broken out the various borders in this image and made them ava [...]

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Added: 2005-12-09

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Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Border (Figure 1): see overview page for details.

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Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Border (Figure 2): see overview page for details.

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Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Border (Figure 3): see overview page for details.

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Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Border (Figure 4): see overview page for details.

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Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Border (Figure 5): see overview page for details.

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