HENRY SHAW (1800-1873)

Shaw, an antiquary and watercolorist, produced several books on manuscript illumination, medieval and Elizabethan art and architecture. The text of this work was printed by Charles Whittingham, the distinguished printer who worked for publisher Williarn Pickering. Whittingham printed many of the full-page color illustrations using successive wood blocks for each color, and he contracted out plates to be printed from copperplate engraving, because the firm did not do intaglio printing.

Gift of Edith du Pont Pearson In Memory of Lammot du Pont