guide to beginners in the art of illumination
By: by Albert H. Warren ...
Contributors: J. Barnard & Son.; Adams & Gee
Publisher: Barnard and Son
Published: 1860
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Technique.; Artists' materials -- Catalogs.
Genres: Catalogs.
Other titles: On the art of illumination; On illumination
Notes: Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Publisher's device printed on t.p.

Added lithographed decorative t.p. with hand-colouring included in pagination.

"It is impossible, in a little work like this, to enter more fully than I have done into the details of this interesting art, and the expense of coloured plates prohibits their use as I could have wished.  I must, therefore, refer my readers, -- when they have learnt all this little work will teach, -- to the more elaborate ones: Jewitt's "Manual of Missal Painting," and the still more elaborate and costly works of Noel Humphreys, Tymms, and others; also to a work -- which is now at press, and will be published very shortly -- entitled, "The Promises of Jesus Christ," illuminated, with 24 original designs in colour, in the style of the fourteenth century, by myself. A. H. W."--Introduction, dated 1860.

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

Lithographed plates show examples of illuminated text.  Plates are unsigned and without imprint.

Includes "Catalogue of materials for Illuminated Painting, etc., manufactured by J. Barnard & Son, 339, Oxford Street.": p. [2-3] and [1]-24 at end.

MASS copy: Bound in limp red-brown morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.  With pale pastel yellow endpapers.  With 10 x 12 cm. publisher's advertisement inserted at upper free endpaper.