Author:Henry Shaw

Henry Shaw
(1800–1873)

Works

• Illuminated Ornaments, selected from Manuscripts and early printed books with text by Sir Frederic Madden (1833)
• Examples of Ornamental Metal Work (1836)
• Specimens of Ancient Furniture with descriptions by Samuel Rush Meyrick (1836)
• Ancient Plate and Furniture from the Colleges of Oxford and the Ashmolean Museum also with text by Samuel Rush Meyrick (1837)
• Specimens of the Details of Elizabethan Architecture with descriptions by Thomas Moule (1839)
• The Encyclopædia of Ornament (1842)
• Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages (1843)
• The Fishmongers' Pageant, on Lord Mayor's Day, 1616: Chrysanaleia, the Golden Fishing, devised by Anthony Munday with introduction by John Gough Nichols (1844)
• Alphabets, Numerals, and Devices of the Middle Ages (1845)
• Decorative Arts, ecclesiastical and civil, of the Middle Ages (1851)
• The Hand Book of Mediæval Alphabets and Devices (1853)
• The Arms of the Colleges of Oxford (1855)
• Specimens of Tile Pavements (1858)
• Handbook of the Art of Illumination as practised during the Middle Ages (1866)

Works about Shaw

• "Shaw, Henry," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.