Shaw's Illuminated Ornaments. Part III.
Every successive number of this curious work presents us with some novel and striking specimen of the quaint devices and brilliant combi- nations of colour contained in the illuminations of the missals and manuscripts of the Middle Ages. By-the-by, we wonder that some embellishments of this description have not been employed in the An- nuals. The Friendship's Offering began with some specimens of em- blazoning, which were in splendid taste: why have they been discon- tinued ? To the designers, also, of patterns for our printed cottons, silks, and muslins, this work would supply some rich and striking examples; and for shawl-borders they afford splendid specimens of strong contrasts of colour and minute intricacies of figure.