The History, Theory, and Practice of Illuminating / Condensed from 'The Art of Illuminating' by the same illustrator and author

by Sir M. Digby Wyatt

"Birth, beauty, wealth, are nothing worth alone.

All these I would for good additions take:

Tis the mind's beauty keeps the others sweet."

Sir Thomas Overbury, The Wife.

"'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud;

'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired;

'Tis modesty that makes them seem divine."

Shakspere.

FOR A DRESSING-ROOM.

"The apparel oft proclaims the man."