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The art of illumination and missal painting : a guide to modern illuminators : illustrated by a series of specimens, from richly illuminated mss. of various periods, accompanied by a set of outlines, to be coloured by the student according to the theories developed in the work

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Title: The art of illumination and missal painting : a guide to modern illuminators : illustrated by a series of specimens, from richly illuminated mss. of various periods, accompanied by a set of outlines, to be coloured by the student according to the theories developed in the work
Creator: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879
Date Created and/or Issued: 1849
Publication Information: London : H.G. Bohn
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Innovative binding in "white leather, with a border blocked in gold on blue, and, on the front, an extremely rich and pretty design printed in chromolithography on paper, inset and lined in gold." Ruari McLean, Victorian book design and colour printing, 1972, p. 106.
Type: text
Format: Specimens.
Language material
Extent: 64 p., [23] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm
Identifier: (C)001122500CSL01-Aleph
RLINCCSG01-B9122
(DRA)AFF-9087
LC call number: ND3310 .H9 1849
Language: English
Subject: Illumination of books and manuscripts
Bookbinding--Specimens
Chromolithographs

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