Early illustrated books: a history of the decoration and illustration of books in the 15th and 16th centuries;
Alfred W. Pollard's survey of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century book decoration, published in London and New York in 1917 for collectors, librarians and students of incunabula. Its plates reproduce early woodcuts: enthroned kings and bishops, Nativity and Adoration scenes, pilgrims' costume studies, tiled floors, foliate borders and historiated initials, offering designers heavy black outline, hatched shading and frame ornament.
