An inquiry concerning the invention of printing : in which the systems of Meerman, Heinecken, Santander, and Koning are reviewed : including also notices of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, the block-books, etc. (1863)
Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836, Berjeau, Jean Philibert, 1809-1891 · London : J. Lilly · leaf 427
ress, much resembling what has been calledthe tower head-dress, but differing from it in this, that instead ofinclining backwards, as that attire is commonly represented, and as itappears in a specimen in the upper part of Plate 29, it rises perpendi-cularly, as on another female figure, in the… … chap, xiv.) COSTUME OF THE SPECULUM. 345 head-dress; but it was in high vogue in this country early in thefifteenth century, when it was satirized by Lydgate, who, besidesspeaking of it in his verses, has given numerous specimens of it inthree of his illuminated manuscripts, some of which are…
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