Art Illuminating Practised Europe Earliest by Tymms W R M D Wyatt (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Studio Editions January 1987 Binding: Hardcover.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). Reprint. Secaucus: Chartwell, 1987. Reprint. 4to. Cloth binding, 304 pp. including 100 color plates. A fascinating facsimile reprint of the 1860 edition with in-depth essays and examples from the 6th to the 16th century in Europe. Book and dust jacket have light shelf wear. Near fine in very good dust jacket, protected with a fresh archival-quality mylar cover.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy folio 104 + (99)pp., colour plates, Facsimile of the 1860 edition inc. 99 fine full-page colour plates.

No Binding. Condition: Poor. Completely disbound copy. Boards and pages are present. No spine. Beautiful plates with titles page. Missing plates 13-19, 53, 58, 64, and 96-99.

Purple cloth boards, gilt lettering within decorative cartouche to front board, no dustwrapper. 9.75ins x 6.5ins, chromolithographic title page, 96pp text followed by 95 plates (89 of which are in colour.All plates present as per the list of plates. Later replacement endpapers.No printed title page. The spine is very faded / browned - to the extent that any lettering is unreadable. Content VG, exterior P.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 2 Missing plates, XII No.2 and XIV No. 19. Plate XBI No.4 is upside down, and the plates are in no particular order. The boards are edge rubbed and knocked around the edges. The binding is excellent. Tanning throughout, not affecting text. No inscriptions or annotations. Tall, extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

96 S. und 95 Tafeln Einband berieben, bestoßen und am oberen Rücken mit Einrissen und etwas Verlust. Innen die Seiten und Tafeln weitgehend losgelöst. Einige Seiten an den Rändern mit kleinen Einrissen. Innen sauber. Gutes Leseexemplar. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100 25 x 18 cm, geprägtes Leinen ohne Schutzumschlag.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 31 cm. [4], 104, [2] p. All 99 plates present. llustrated t.p., half-title, colophon, and most plates printed in colors. Bound in publishers brown cloth. Original spine rebacked on modern brown cloth. Previous owner added more gilt wash to boards obsuring original cloth to boards and title imprint on boards. All edges gilt. Lacking gilt to page ends. Wear and chipping loss to title page. Foxing to text pages. Marginal dampstain to head and tail margins of text. Plates have soiling to margins, a few plate have creases. About 1/3 of the plates have blue sharpie note on the bottom margin. Plates have been mis-set when this book was rebound. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Col fp, 104pp, 98 plates mostly in colour, with guards (NB - plate 28 is absent). 31x22, brown cloth over bevelled boards with elaborate glt and red decorations to spine, front and rear boards, glt edges, attractive floral patterned end papers. Appears to be very well done restoration project, resulting in highly attractive book. The covers and spine are very bright and clean, and the boards have limited wear; the eps and guards are more recent, and while now evenly bound a few of the plates have some edge wear and marking; one plate has some spots of paints not affecting the image, and as noted one plate is missing. A beautifully made and printed item, showing the Victorian fascination with the design and colouring of early manuscripts, and displaying the skills and new technologies of the printer.

Cm. 24, pp. 96 di testo. Con frontespizio e 95 splendide tavole in cromolitografia. Legatura editoriale in piena tela decorata e con titoli in oro. Legatura sapientemente rastaurata, peraltro esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione. Si tratta verosimilmente della seconda edizione (di poco ridotta rispetto alla prima) di questo splendido volume dedicato alla decorazione miniata delle lettere.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Edition Unstated. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Professionally rebacked. Gilt-stamped maroon cloth over boards, 96 pages of text, 95 color plates of illumination examples. Covers lightly stained, wear to cloth along extremities, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, previous owner's name in ink on front flyleaf, scattered staining. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 0 oz. Category: Art & Design; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 014577.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Brilliant study of religious art and embellishments as practiced in Europe from the 6th century through the flowering of the Italian Renaissance. Quarto: 104 p. with the 99 chromolithograph plates, as well as the half-title, title page, and colophon. The text is printed and black and red with elaborate borders and floral designs. Original brown cloth binding, with elaborate gilt stamping. Minimal foxing to the contents, with a period previous owner's ink signature to a prefatory blank leaf. Some general fading and wear along the extremities; otherwise very good.

Brown Cloth, Gilt. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages text, chromolithographed title page, together with 95 chromolithographic plates, as called for. Original decorative cloth gilt neatly recased. Some spotting, age toning, staining to top corner of 8 plates, contemporary ownership signature in pencil to front endpaper. [715] Size: 250mm. x 175mm. Book.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Borders Initial Letters (illustrator). A beautifully illustrated guide to illuminated manuscripts and the process of creation. An early edition. Dated from the British Library. In full crushed morocco binding with gilt detail by Baker & Son. Illustrated by Borders Initial Letters, with an engraved title page and 93 chromolithograph plates. Lacking plates LXVI, and LXXXI. A comprehensive guide to the art of illuminating, including details on the history and creative process. Alphabets selected by W. R. Tymms, the nineteenth century technician, artist and designer. With an essay and instructions by Matthew Digby Wyatt. Wyatt was a renowned British architect and art historian, and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge. In full crushed morocco binding by Baker & Son. Externally, smart with rubbing to the extremities. Marks and chipping to the spine. Light marks to the boards and free endpapers. Internally, lacking plates LXVI and LXXXI, but otherwise firmly bound. Pages lightly age-toned but generally bright and clean. Spotting to the engraved title page. Handling marks throughout, heavier to the reverse of the plates. Two small closed tears to the edge of plate XIX. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Large, oversize first edition published April 2, 1860. Gilt-decorated publisher's brown cloth binding reinforced at stress points with inexpertly applied brown tape at front and rear joints, upper spine, rear corner tips. Pages tight, clean. All edges gilt. 104 pages of text; 99 full-color numbered chromolithographed plates. One-inch tape remnants or tape abrasions on front and rear pastedowns (about 7 total) . Despite its stated defects, this is still an attractive copy. ;

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. 1st. Bound in half red leather and red cloth with rules stamped in gilt on the covers and the spine stamped in gilt. Chromolithographed half-title, title, and colophon, with 99 chromolithographed plates. All edges marbled. Marbled endpaper. Cloth is faded. Rubbing to the spine. Some browning.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (11.6 x 8.1 inches). Illustrated with a total of 102 fine full page Chromolithograhic plates; Half title, title page, 99 numbered plates - each with a tissue paper guard, and the colophon leaf. 104 pp of text, printed in black within decorative red borders. A fine copy in a beautiful designer binding by The Ashley Bindery, of Somerset. Stamped to the rear inner board- 19 AB 81. Full black morocco with multi colour design of two boxed lines in brown morocco across both boards and the spine, with tan, green and red design within each box. The spine is also lettered in gilt. Wood effect endpapers. All edges gilt. Housed in a felt lines chemise with the same wood effect paper on the boards and a black morocco spine, lettered in gilt and with one of the red designs onlaid between the title and authors. This then fits into a felt lined slip case covered with the wood effect paper. A fine and beautiful binding. ----- A previous owner has written neatly in pencil on the front blank free endpaper that they bought this from Mr Ashley of the Ashley Bindery in 1981 for £100, also stating that Mrs Ashley designed the binding. I assume that they mean Mr and Mrs Lewis who owned the bindery.

96 pp. Colored lithographic title page and 95 color plates (the last plate trimmed near the image and laid down on blank leaf). A few marginal tears neatly repaired with tissue; first leaf of text dust-soiled; lithographic title page slightly chipped at the fore-edge; binding rubbed; especially at the corners.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. 96 pp. letterpress + plates. Rebound in maroon morocco over marbled boards, gilt; spine in compartments with raised bands decorated gilt with contrasting green morocco title labels, gilt. A little margin damp stain on title and preceding endpaper. Small lower corner worming at foot of title and to page 12 with a few small edge spots; otherwise a very good copy with clean plates. Faint early inscription on verso of third free endpaper. Illustrated by chromolithograph decorated title and by 95 chromolithographic plates. A few plate captions faded as usual. Decorated by initial and head and tailpiece vignettes. A fine collection of illuminated work from 600-1600, the images reproduced by William Robert Tymms (1828-78), talented chromolithograph designer. The text is by Sir Matthew Wyatt (1820-1877), prominent architect of the period. He served as Secretary to the Great Exhibition of 1851 and as Surveyor of the East India Company and published The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century in 1851. A condensed version (1861) and a second edition of The Art of Illuminating soon followed, all published by the notable lithographers, Day and Son. A scarce title recently handsomely rebound. ART / LITERATURE ILLUMINATION DECORATIVE ARTS MANUSCRIPTS MEDIEVAL ILLUSTRATED ART / LITERATURE.