Illustrations of one hundred manuscripts in the library of Henry Yates Thompson ..
A 1907 London collection printed at the Chiswick Press, assembled by collector Henry Yates Thompson to show one hundred of his manuscripts, mostly medieval devotional books. The plates are photographic reproductions of manuscript pages with framed miniatures, decorated initials and bordered text blocks. A designer could take from them the interlocking architecture of gothic frames, the tiny narrative scenes set inside initials, and the leafy border ornament running down the page margins.
