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Presents a facsimile reproduction of eighteenth-century poet William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" a satire on religion and morality, including twenty-seven color plates.

Celtic illuminated manuscripts continue to fascinate us with their intricacy and craftsmanship. Christian monks believed the gospels to be the Word of God, and to glorify His name they brought the sacred text alive with dazzling colors and splendid designs. Here Courtney Davis re-creates portraits of the saints, border designs, Celtic symbols and elaborate initials from all the Irish School manuscripts, spanning the period from the beginning of the...

A dictionary, illustrated like a medieval manuscript, describing terms common in the Middle Ages.

In medieval Paris, Marguerite helps her nearly blind father finish painting an illuminated manuscript for his patron, Lady Isabelle.

At a medieval monastery, orphaned Simon, who is apprenticing in illumination, dreams of the day he can create his own pictures, but finds he must first complete a strange and unusual assignment that Father Anselm has given him.

The Illuminated Desert is a stunning dialogue between painting and prose by two daughters of the Colorado Plateau: Terry Tempest Williams and Chloe Hedden. This is more than an "abecedarian" or Alphabet Book. It is an exquisite rendering of the red rock canyons of southern Utah and the natural history that evokes a poetry of place. The author describes it as: "a naturalist's book of prayers, a collection of episodes, seen by two students of the natural...