Silvestre, _Paléographie Universelle_, 4 vols., Atlas folio, Paris, 1839-1841. This is the most magnificent and costly work on the subject that has ever been produced. The English Edition in 2 vols., Atlas folio, translated and edited by Sir Fred. Madden, London, 1850, is very superior in point of accuracy and judgment to the original French work. A smaller edition with 72 selected plates has also been published, in 2 vols. 8vo. and one fol., London, 1850. Waagen, G. F., _On the Importance of Manuscripts with Miniatures in the history of Art_, 8vo. London (1850). Westwood, J. O., _Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria_, royal 4to. London, 1843-5. This is a very fine work, with 50 coloured plates of manuscript illuminations selected from manuscripts of the Bible of various dates from the fourth to the sixteenth century. " " _Illuminated Illustrations of the Bible_, royal 4to. London, 1846. This is a companion work to the last-mentioned book. " " _Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts_, fol., London, 1868; with 54 very finely executed coloured plates of remarkable fidelity in drawing. The reproductions of pages from the _Book of Kells_ and similar Celtic manuscripts are specially remarkable. Wyatt, M. Digby, _The Art of Illuminating as practised in Europe from the earliest times_; 4to. London, 1860; with 100 plates in gold and colours. The best work on the form of books in ancient times is Th. Birt, _Das antike Buchwesen in seinem Verhältniss zur Literatur_, 8vo., 1882. The publications of the Palaeographical Society, from the year 1873, and still in progress, are of great value for their well-selected and well-executed photographic reproductions of pages from the most important manuscripts of all countries and periods. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Fig. 1, page 33. Part of the drawing engraved on the bronze _cista_ of Ficoroni, dating from the early part of the fourth century B.C. A beautiful example of Greek drawing. " 2 " 37. Miniature of classical design from a twelfth century _Psalter_ in the Vatican library. " 3 " 39. Painting in the "House of Livia" on the Palatine Hill in Rome. " 4 " 41. A Pompeian painting of Hellenic style, as an example of Greek drawing and composition. " 5 " 43. The Prophet Ezechiel from a Byzantine manuscript of the ninth century A.D. " 6 " 49. Miniature from the Vienna manuscript of _Genesis_. " 7 " 51. Miniature from the manuscript of the work on _Botany_ by Dioscorides, executed at Constantinople about 500 A.D. for the Princess Juliana. " 8 " 58. Mosaic of the sixth century in the apse of the church of SS. Cosmas and Damian in Rome.