Elementary instruction in the art of illuminating and missal painting on vellum : a guide to modern illuminators, with illustrations in outline as copies for the student (1860)
Laurent de Lara, D. (David), author · London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts · leaf 39
teenth centuries, owes its total extinction to that powerful instrument of modern civilisation, the Printing Press. Whether it be the phlegmatic Dutch Coster, or the German Necromancer, Guttenberg, who was the first inventor of “ moveable type,” I know not ; but it is quite certain that the “…
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
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