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Early Woodcut Initials Containing over Thirteen Hundred Reproductions of Ornamental Letters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Oscar Jennings
The work is a scholarly survey of the development of ornamental initials from the Roman era through the early…
The History, Theory, and Practice of Illuminating Condensed from 'The Art of Illuminating' by the same illustrator and author
Sir M. Digby (Matthew Digby) Wyatt
One Thousand and One Initial Letters
Owen Jones
Emblematic Illumination; or Forms, Colours and Emblems Suitable for Illuminating Texts of Holy Scripture in Large Style, in Oils or Water-colours.