The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 592
amateurs was every day increas-ing. In the libraries of princes, scholars,or monks, printed books were collected asformerly were manuscripts. Henceforthprinting found everywhere the same protec-tion, the same encouragements, the samerivalry. Typographers sometimes travelledwith their apparatus,… … Fig. 415.—Border employed by John ot Tournes, in 1557, ornamented with Antique Masks and AllegoricalPersonages bearing Baskets containing Laurel Branches. 520 PRINTING. number of editions published in Europe in the space of half a centuryamounted to sixteen thousand. But the most remarkable result…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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