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: Whittingham, Charles, 1795-1876 (printer); Chiswick Press
Edition: Second edition, considerably enlarged.
Publisher: Ackermann and Co.
Published: 1857
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Technique
Other titles: On illumination; Instruction in illuminating and missal painting :
Notes: Includes "Preface.", dated March, 1856: p. [9]-10.

Date based on publisher's advertisements.

"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. [1-6] at end.

With the same setting of type and plates as used in the "Fourth Edition" and the "Fifth Edition" of this title published in [1858] and [1860] by Ackermann and Co.  See McLean D 0657 and McLean D 0658.

MASS copy: Bound in red morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind in the same design as McLean D 0657; a.e.g.  With yellow glazed endpapers.