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The art of the book (1914)

Holme, Charles, 1848-1923, ed · New York, London, Paris : "The Studio Ltd. · leaf 276

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were not contentwith the mean position and scant wording of the tra-ditional colophon. Some of them tried to vary theusual form of words, and to make the colophon moreattractive by putting it in metre. Franz Renner andthe brothers Speyer of Venice, Ulric Hahn of Rome,and others gave to the reader… … HE painters work will be of lit- Paint-tie merit if he takes the paint- i^^ging of others as his standard, ^^but if he studies from nature ^^^he will produce good fruits; as ^ ^is seen in the case of the paint- ^ers oT the age after the Romans, who continued to ^jimitate one another and whose art…

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