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  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._

  BY D. LAURENT DE LARA,
  (_Illuminating Artist to the Queen.)_

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    Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros."

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DEDICATED BY KIND PERMISSION TO THE LADY HARRIET ASHLY.


  MADAM,

Irrespective of the honor your Ladyship confers on me, by allowing
the privilege of associating your name with this edition, a nobler
motive which actuated your generous sanction, viz., "the high
interest you feel in the revival of an obsolete but noble art," and
of which you are at once its zealous Patroness, and its more than
accomplished votary, are claims on my gratitude, which words scarcely
can express, even in the hackneyed terms the humble sometimes venture
to address to rank!--Appreciating, therefore, deeply the distinction
you thus confer on one of your fellow-labourers in art,

  Allow me,
  MADAM,
  To remain with profound respect,
  Your Ladyship's devoted
  and obliged servant,
  D. LAURENT DE LARA.


3, Torrington Square, October, 1863.




CONTENTS.


                                                        PAGE.

  PREFACE                                                   7

  PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION                              9

  INTRODUCTION                                             11

  On Illumination                                          17

  General Rules                                            25

  On Colours:--Ultramarine Blue--Vermilion--Emerald
    Green--Cobalt Blue--Purple--Orange Chrome--Chrome
    Yellow--Carmine, plain and burnt--Hooker's
    Green--Burnt Sienna--Lamp Black--Middle
    Tints--Enamel White--Platina and Silver--Green
    or Yellow Gold--The Agate                              30

  On the Arrangement of Colours                            47

  On Composition                                           52

  On Preparing the Vellum                                  59

  On Tracing and Transferring                              61

  On Raised Gold Ornamentations                            64

  Conclusion                                               67

  On Outlines                                              78

  List of Colours                                          82

  Plates                                                   83

  Appendix                                                 83




PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION.


Two years sufficed to exhaust the sixth edition (the first shilling
one) of my "Elementary Instruction on Illuminating," in opposition,
too, of a rival author; who was, however, more fortunate--for he was
enabled to _illuminate_ the world, with seven consecutive editions
in as many months, and left the world for two years after in as much
darkness as ever.--Far from envying him this inordinate success,
I rest secure on my laurels, humble though they be.--Ten years
were needed to bring forth my seventh edition, and here it is--as
unpretending as ever--but fully understood, and understandable--no
new theories erudite in print and bad in practice--no old ones,
filched from musty manuscripts, alike impracticable as complicated,
and displayed with learning and research, to bolster up repute and
attach importance to very questionable utility; wholly unimportant to
those who seek information. I address the _few_ and the few only,
who will take practical hints, from a practical man, clothed in the
plainest English. I do not trade on other men's brains, but endeavour
to live by my own. Those who encourage the empiric in art must buy
experience, and be contented with their shillings worth.(?) I have
added only some additional matter on colours and composition, as
applied to illumination, which I hope the public may find useful--in
other respects the seventh edition is like its predecessors--a
claimant to public favour.

    D. L.




PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION.


The steady revival of the "Art of Illuminating" during the last
few years, and the rapid progress it has made amongst the educated
classes, even since the fifth edition of this work was published
in 1859 (all the copies of which are now sold), has induced me to
re-publish it, under the present less expensive form, in order to
keep pace with the many publications which, under the names of
"Manuals," "Primers," "Treatises," "Guides," and "Instruction Books,"
have lately been forced on the public notice, each pretending to
give the desired information to the followers of this beautiful art,
with more or less display of talent; but all tending towards the
cultivation of a highly interesting pursuit, and proving that the
nineteenth century may in future history be distinguished as having
produ