The art of illumination, as practised during the Middle Ages
Subtitle: with a description of the metals, pigments, and processes employed by the artists at different periods
By: by Henry Shaw.
Contributors: Hornby, Charles Harry St. John, 1867-1946 (bookplate); Morris, William, 1834-1896 (bookplate); Chiswick Press; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son
Edition: 2nd. ed., with coloured illustrations
Publisher: Bell and Daldy
Published: 1870
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Initials; Illumination of books and manuscripts
Other titles: A handbook of the art of illumination
Notes: First published in 1866 with title: A handbook of the art of illuminatinion.

Lacks the 4 page preface by Shaw found in the 1866 ed.; 12 of the wood engraved designs are replicated in colour by means of chromolithographs, with imprint: Vincent Brooks, Day & Son.

Added engraved t.p. and 15 wood engravings enumerated in table of contents, giving source of original and name of engraver for each plate.

Text and wood engravings printed at the Chiswick Press.

MASS copy 1: With the bookplate of "BM/CESV", and the hand-illuminated signature: Chas. Fewtrell, Liverpool. Bound in brown sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.

MASS copy 2: Bound in brown cloth as copy 1.

MASS copy 3: Rebound, with the ink stamp of W.H. Smith and Son; lacking chromolithographs. With the bookplate of C.H. St. John Hornby. Ex-libris William Morris and H. Harvey Frost.