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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: 133
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/p27-border-antique-green-166x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green]")
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green
This is a version of the red border from Page 27 coloured green. There are also a brown and a black and white version. To make your own coloured version of this old page border, see the notes for the Red and the black-and-white versions. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Plate 71.---Fifteenth century No. 1b.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/71-Fifteenth-Century-1b-234x200.jpg "[picture: Plate 71.---Fifteenth century No. 1b.]")
Plate 71.—Fifteenth century No. 1b.
“A series of bold initials from detached fragments in the South Kensington Museum.” (p. 103) [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Plate 17.---Ninth Century. Nº 5.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/017-Ninth-Century-05-overview-131x200.jpg "[picture: Plate 17.---Ninth Century. Nº 5.]")
Plate 17.—Ninth Century. Nº 5.
All except Figure 7 are from the Bible of Charles the Bald, and Figure 7 is from the Gospels of Lothaire. [more...] [$]
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