William John Loftie: 3 books

Book cover of Lessons in the Art of Illuminating - A Series of Examples selected from Works in the British - Museum, Lambeth Palace Library, and the South Kensington - Museum. - The Original Classic Edition
by W. J. (William John) Loftie
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Lessons in the Art of Illuminating - A Series of Examples selected from Works in the British - Museum, Lambeth Palace Library, and the South Kensington - Museum.. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and...
Book cover of A Ride in Egypt
by William John Loftie
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017

Mr. Loftie's very pleasant book relates, strictly speaking, to an excursion from Sioot to Luxor, undertaken by the author and three friends in 1879, but it includes as well some entertaining notes en route from England to the East, and a number of instructive chapters on Cairo and its environs. The...
Book cover of Lessons in the Art of Illuminating: A Series of Examples Selected from Works in the British Museum, Lambeth Palace Library and the South Kensington Museum
by William John Loftie
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

PERHAPS the art of Illumination, although it is closely connected with that of Writing, may be entitled to a separate history. Men could write long before it occurred to them to ornament their writings: and the modern student will find that what he looks upon as genuine illumination is not to be traced...
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