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Songs of Shakespeare

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 author · 1865 · London : Printed & published by Day & Son, Limited · 6 pictures

Songs of Shakespeare is a Victorian illuminated songbook of Shakespeare's lyrics, published in London in 1865 by Day & Son for a general readership. Its pictures are chromolithographed pages with illuminated initials and text framed by borders of tiled foliage, birds, flowers and bordered panels in gold, red, blue and green, offering designers a model for decorative page frames and historicist ornament.

Illumination of books and manuscripts

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