Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The art of illuminating as practised in Europe from the earliest times : illustrated by borders, initial letters, and alphabets / selected & chromolithographed by W.R. Tymms ; with an essay and instructions by M.D. Wyatt.

Accession number
PML 142583
Creator
Tymms, W. R. (William Robert)
Published
London : Published by Day and Son, Limited, 6 Gate Street, [1867?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated chromolithographed t.p.; most plates interleaved with loose tissue.
Head- and tail-pieces.
With a list of plates on p. [89]-96.
The firm of Day & Son was located at 6 Gate Street from 1866 to 1868; Pierpont Morgan Library copy has gift inscription dated Jan. 1, 1868.
Description
96 p., 95 leaves of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
Provenance
Inscription on front flyleaf: Lucy Hayward with her brother Edward's love, 1st Jany 1868; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's purple cloth blocked in gold and blind.
Classification
Department