Illuminated ornaments
Subtitle: selected from manuscripts and early printed books from the sixth to the seventeenth centuries
By: drawn and engraved by Henry Shaw; with descriptions by Sir Frederic Madden.
Contributors: Madden, Frederic, 1801-1873.; Whittingham, Charles, 1795-1876 (printer); Madeley, George Edward (printer)
Publisher: William Pickering
Published: 1833
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Illumination of books and manuscripts; Initials
Other titles: Illuminated manuscripts selected from manuscripts of the middle ages
Notes: Added engraved t.p.

Plates are hand-coloured etchings and lithographs, many with Pickering's imprint, and with dates between 1830 and 1833. Text printed by C. Whittingham.

MASS copy 1-2: Large paper issue, with gold used in the hand-coloured plates. Some plates with imprint: G. Madeley. Copy 1 with the bookplate of Ruari McLean; presentation copy from C.J. Bloomfield, Bishop of London, to Sir C.M. Clarke.

MASS copy 3: Small paper issue (28 cm.); with yellow used in place of gold in hand-coloured plates. With the bookplate of Ruari McLean; bound in green morocco blocked in gold and black.