ILLUMINATED PLATE VI.--A full page and separate Initials from a Book of Hours (Low Countries, fifteenth century), and Border from Manuscript in British Museum, Description of Plate VI., French Initial Letters and Border Ornaments of the fourteenth century, ILLUMINATED PLATE VII.--Borders of Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries,--and Heraldic Designs, from Manuscripts in British Museum and Heralds' College, Description of Plate VII., Outline Drawing of Border and Text, with Adoration of the Three Kings, sixteenth century, ILLUMINATED PLATE VIII.--Examples from the Book of Kells (ninth century), in Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Description of Plate VIII., Outline Drawings of Early Irish Initial Letters, ILLUMINATED PLATE IX.--Facsimile page of a Book of Hours in Lambeth Palace Library--early in fifteenth century, Description of Plate IX., _The outlined initials on pp. xv, 9, 13, 21, 25, 29, and 33 are taken from a manuscript of the fifteenth century, preserved at Nuremberg. The originals are very highly but delicately colored, the ground being gold; the body of the letter, black; and the scroll work and foliage pink, blue, green, and yellow. The book, which is dated 1489, is a treatise entitled the "Preservation of Body, Soul, Honour, and Goods." The tailpieces throughout represent heraldic animals, from the Rows Roll and other authentic sources._ [Illustration: HERALDIC BOAR.] THE ART OF ILLUMINATING. GENERAL SKETCH.