Elementary instruction in the art of illuminating and missal painting on vellum
Subtitle: a guide to modern illuminators ; with illustrations (printed in gold and colours) and outlines for copying for the student
By: by D. Laurent de Lara ...
Contributors: Ackermann, Rudolph II, fl. 1825-1871.; Whittingham, Charles, 1795-1876 (printer); Chiswick Press; Fisher & Son
Edition: Fifth edition, considerably enlarged.
Publisher: Ackermann and Co.
Published: 1860
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Technique
Other titles: On illumination; Instruction in illuminating :
Notes: Date based on publisher's advertisements and binder's address on ticket in Massey Library copy.  Cf. Packer, Maurice.  Bookbinders of Victorian London, 1991.

Includes "Preface.", dated March, 1856: p. [9]-10.

"Price Six Shillings."--T.p.

Includes wood-engraved decorative head-pieces, tail-pieces and initials.

Plate IV is with signature: "Augusta Haskey, lith.".

Includes "Appendix.": p. [61]-64.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-4] at end.

With the same setting of type and plates as used in the "Second Edition" and the "Fourth Edition" of this title published in [1857]  and [1858] by Ackermann and Co.  See McLean D 0656 and McLean D 0657.

MASS copy: Bound in purple morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.  With binder's ticket: "Fisher & Son,  Binders,  2 Ivy Lane,  London,  E. C."  With bookseller's label: "R. Ackermann,  191  Regent Street."