Lenders to the Exhibition

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Anonymous Lenders

• Arms of the See of Worcester from A.H. Warren and John Woodward's Arms of the Episcopates of Great Britain
• Border and initial B from Braybrooke Psalter by Henry Shaw
• Frontispiece and title-page, Francis Joseph Baigent and Charles James Russell's A Practical Manual of Heraldry
• Frontispiece and title-page, the Audsleys's Guide to the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting
• Illuminated Letters from the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries from Freeman Gage de la Motte and J. Willis Brooks's Medieval Alphabets
• Scroll in the Cornice of the Clopton Chauntry from J. K. Colling's Gothic Ornament Drawn from Existing Authorities
• Nave Roof Aldenham, Herts from E. L. Blackburne's Sketches Graphic and Descriptive for a History of the Decorative Painting
• Frontispiece and title-page, David Laurent de Lara's Elementary Instruction on the Art of Illumination
• Thy Kingdom Come by an unknown artist

Henry L. Beckwith, Jr.

• Caddy Lidded Colour Box for Heraldic and Missal Painting. George Rowney and Co

Boston Public Library

• Prologue, William Morris's The Chronicles of Fraunce, Inglande, and Other Places Adjoynynge
• How our cristen men chosen a very patriarke in Iherusalem from The History of Geoffrey of Bologne by William Morris
• Sea King's Daughter from over the sea, Alexandra from Tennyson's A Welcome to Her Royal Highness, by Owen Jones
• William Morris's The Story of the Glittering Plain, second edition
• When Adam Delved and Eve Span from A Dream of John Ball by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones

Gorham Division Textron

• A from A Thousand and One Initial Letters, Designed and Illuminated by Owen Jones

Houghton Library Harvard University

• Botany of the 13th Century by John Ruskin from Modern Painters III
• Little Girl Lost by William Blake

John Carter Brown Library at Brown University

• The Trinity by Robert Anning Bell

John Hay Library, Brown University

• Byron's The Prisoner of Chillon by William and George Audsley
• A 'Facs' or ornamental letter in Pierce (sic) Ploughman's Creed by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
• William Morris's Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Societ
• The Kelmscott Press Chaucer by William William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones (vellum copy)
• The Lovers' Parting by Francesa Alexander and John Ruskin
• Love is Enough by William Morris
• Merlin Taketh the Child Arthur into His Keeping from Malory's Le Morte Darthur by Aubrey Beardsley
• A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press
• De la Typographie by Charles Rickets and Lucien Pissarro
• Plate XIV from Owen Jones's Plans Elevations and Sections of the Alhambra
• Helen Reid Cross's Prologue for a Book of Hours

John D. Merriam

• The Story of the Glittering Plain by William Morris, first edition

Dr. Ellen K. Morris

• A Book of Christmas Carols Illuminated from Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum by Joseph Cundall
• The Bridal Souvenir by John Leighton
• The Good Shunammite
• The Victoria Psalter by Owen Jones
• Cover and The Battle of Poictiers from Henry Noel Humphreys's A Record of the Black Prince
• Gray's Elegy by Owen Jones
• Marmion
• Miracles of Our Lord by Henry Noel Humphreys
• Parables of Our Lord by Henry Noel Humphreys
• The Sermon on the Mount by the Audsleys
• Sentiments and Similes of William Shakespeare by Henry Noel Humphreys
• Title-page, The Art of Illuminating by Matthew Digby Wyatt and William Robert Tymms

Library of the Boston Athenaeum

• Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis by William Morris

Library of the Rhode Island School of Design

• Dedication to the Earl of Shrewsbury from A. W. N. Pugin's An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England
• Frontispiece from A. W. N. Pugin's Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament
• Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages by Henry Shaw
• Job and His Daughters by William Blake
• John Ball Preaching from Henry Noel Humphreys's Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart
• O Crux Ave from A. W. N. Pugin's Floriated Ornament
• The Preacher by Owen Jones
• Specimens of 14th and 15th Century Illuminated Initials from the Audsleys' Polychromatic Decoration

New Bedford Free Public Library

• The Order for Morning Prayer from The Book of Common Prayer by Owen Jones
• Illuminated B from a thirteenth-century Psalter

Pierpont Morgan Library

• The Kelmscott Press Chaucer by William William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones (bound copy)
• Ogmund comes to Midfirth from William Morris's The Story of Kormak

Princeton University Library

• We Praise Thee O God by Ester Faithfull Fleet

Providence Public Library

• Ancient Spanish Ballads by Owen Jones
• Paleographia Sacra Pictoria by John Obadiah Westwood
• Illuminated Initial Letters from Henry Shaw's Alphabets, Numerals, and Devices of the Middle Ages
• Illuminated Texts of the Middle Ages by Henry Noel Humphreys
• Opening of St. Luke's Gospel from The Origin and Progress of Writing by Henry Noel Humphreys
• Dialogus Creatorum from The Origin and Progress of Writing by Henry Noel Humphreys

Redwood Library and Athenaeum

• A Thurible or Censer from Henry Shaw's Decorative Arts Ecclesiastical and Civil of the Middle Ages

Yale Center for British Art

• Gospels of Mac Durnan from Henry Noel Humphreys's The Art of Illumination and Missal Painting
• Title-page, William Handle Harrison's Suggestions for Illuminating

Related Material

• Institutions that provided supplemental images for this twenty-fifth anniversary web edition of Victorian Bibliomania

References

Beckwith, Alice H. R. H. Victorian Bibliomania: The Illuminated Book in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Exhibition catalogue. Providence. Rhode Island: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1987.

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