The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time (1890)
Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton, 1848-1897 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 136
d. An exception wasthe beautiful Prayer-book of John Day, 1578, known asQueen Elizabeths Prayer-book, from the fine portrait of theQueen, which we reproduce ; but in this the woodcuts weredesigned by Albert Diirer and Hans Holbein. Pynson wasthe first to use Roman type in England, in the Oratio… … Fig. 69.—Portrait of Queen Elizabeth Ircm the Book rf Christian Plains,printed by John Daj, 157S. type-founders, as no record exists of founding as a separatetrade until that time The greatest achievement of the sixteenth century in ii8 The Book. England was the printing of the first English Bible,…
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