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Illustrations of one hundred manuscripts in the library of Henry Yates Thompson ..

Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928 · 1907 · London, Printed at the Chiswick Press · 16 pictures

A 1907 London privately printed collection of photographic plates by the collector Henry Yates Thompson, showing one hundred of his illuminated manuscripts for connoisseurs and scholars of medieval book art. The four plates here show large decorated initials, a Greek-letter band, and interlace ornament in plain black-and-white photographs, offering designers examples of historical letterforms, knotwork borders and enclosed ornamental panels.

Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928 · Illumination of books and manuscripts

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