This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...exactitude; and whatever merits any page may display, they will go for little, if that page is disfigured by a crooked line, or a single leaf insufliciently or incorrectly shadowed: and the greater the merit, the more notable the drawback. Fifthly: -Rigidly avoid contrasting natural with conventional foliage. Adopt ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...exactitude; and whatever merits any page may display, they will go for little, if that page is disfigured by a crooked line, or a single leaf insufliciently or incorrectly shadowed: and the greater the merit, the more notable the drawback. Fifthly: -Rigidly avoid contrasting natural with conventional foliage. Adopt which you like, for by either beautiful effects may be produced; but mix them, and the charm of both is gone. Natural foliage may be successfully combined with any other varieties of conventional ornaments, excepting those based upon natural foliage. Sixthly: -Take care that some at least of your dominant lines and borders are kept parallel to the rectangular sides of your pages; for unless of a page at a glance. Oriental alphabets are the very reverse of all this. They are complex, cumbersome, unmanageable." Much the same might have been said of many of the medi val ones your flowing and wayward ornaments are corrected by this soberer contrast, they will, however beautiful in themselves, have a straggling and untidy appearance in the volume. Where the lines of the text are strongly marked, as in black ink on a white ground, and the page is so far filled with text as to leave but little space for ornament, this rule may be, to a great extent, disregarded, for the lines of the text will themselves supply the requisite contrast to the flowing forms; but where the page is nearly filled with ornament, or when the text is faint only, as in gold lettering on a white ground, it becomes imperative. Seventhly: -Be decided, but temperate, in your contrasts of colour. It would obviously exceed the limits of these notes, to attempt in them to enter upon the principles of the "harmony of colour;" they must be studied from treatises speciall...
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Used-Acceptable. Ex library rebound hardback. Ex art college library-stamps, labels, etc., rebound in sturdy brown cloth. Lacks title page, frontis & 28 plates (details available on request); small stamp at top rh corner of each plate, just affecting corner of the illustration; some plates repaired with clear tape; pl.19 chipped at edges; some pencil annotation; binding tight. This is a heavy book (over 2kgs packed); additional postage may be required.
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Good. The Art of Illuminating as Practiced in Europe from the Earliest Times. Illustrated by Borders, Initial Letters and Alphabets Selected and Chromolithographed by W. T. Tymms. With an Essay and Instructions by M. D. Wyatt Arch. No publication date stated. Small octavo. Purple cloth covered boards faded to yellowish in some places. Blindstamped decoration covering boards. Gilt lettering and decoration on front cover. Some small stains and edgewear to boards. Foxing to endpapers with crack at title page gutter. Small dampstain to title page, otherwise textblock is generally clean. Filled with beautiful, detailed full-colour examples of illuminating. Many of the plates display gilt highlights. A beautiful book.