Sources of supplemental images for this twenty-fifth anniversary web edition of Victorian Bibliomania

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Unless otherwise noted all images come the Internet Archive web version of books in the following libraries and collections —  George P. Landow.

Brigham Young University

• Paleographia Sacra Pictoria by John Obadiah Westwood

Cornell University

• Frontispiece from A. W. N. Pugin's Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament
• Oak paneling from the rood screen, Dickleburgh Church, Norfolk from A. W. N. Pugin's Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament

Library of Congress

• A Book of Christmas Carols Illuminated from Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum by Joseph Cundall

New York Public Library

• Ancient Spanish Ballads by Owen Jones
• Celtic No. 2 from The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones

Pennsylvania Museum of Art

• Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages by Henry Shaw

Peter Harrington, Rare Book

• The Kelmscott Press Chaucer by William William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones (vellum copy)

Project Gutenberg

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

The Smithsonian Institution

• Plate XIV from Owen Jones's Plans Elevations and Sections of the Alhambra

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

• Title-page, The Art of Illuminating by Matthew Digby Wyatt and William Robert Tymms
• O Crux Ave from A. W. N. Pugin's Floriated Ornament
• Frontispiece and title-page, David Laurent de Lara's Elementary Instruction on the Art of Illumination

University of Maryland, College Park

• A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press
• Frontispiece and title-page, the Audsleys's Guide to the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting

The University of Carolina at Chapel Hill

• William Morris's The Story of the Glittering Plain, second edition

The University of Toronto

• Scroll in the Cornice of the Clopton Chauntry from J. K. Colling's Gothic Ornament Drawn from Existing Authorities

Related Material

• Lenders to the 1987 Victorian Bibliomania exhibition

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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