Excerpt from Hints on Illuminating: With an Essay on the Art of Ornamenting in Gold or Metals, Describing a New and Easy Method of Brilliantly and Durably Imitating the Illuminated Gilding of the Middle Ages IN the following pages the author has confined himfelf to an (outline of the indifpenfables for fuccei'sfully illuminating, with the exception of the Eflay on Gold Ornamentation, which enters tfully into the fubject, and contains much original and exclufive nnformation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.