The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times
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The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times
W. R. Symms and M.D. Wyatt
Publ. Day and Son London 1860
£130
First edition, 4to. (305x220x40mm), elaborately decorated bevelled boards in gilt and red, spine decorated similarly, a.e.g., chromolithographed half title & title, introduction with decorated borders 96pp., list of plates 8pp., 99 chromolithograph plates mostly in colour, publisher's device at end, chromolithographed, lacks rear flyleaf, good.
The plates consist of borders, initial letters and alphabets. Day & Son were Lithographers to the Queen.