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The book, its history and development (1907)

Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 223

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es of allegorical figures, all withtheir respective emblems, and often lettered and dated.There are Faith, Hope and Charity; Sweetness, Prudence,Justice ; figures of the Evangelists, Christ, David, St. Paul,Lucretia, and heads of the reformers, Luther, Melancthonand Hus particularly. Some of the… … ■m^MD^m^ Fig. 99. — Germanstamped leather bind-ing with, portrait ofCharles V. Dated 1570. OR^UMEKTATION WITHOUT GOLD. 201 others of Luther and Melancthon. Some of these are setin an arabesque framing with a space left in the middlefor an insertion. These are found impressed on calf andon pig skin,…

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