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 180
e have now arrived, when thescience of the old printers assumed acommercial character, in which taste lostitself under the influence of religiousarchitecture. Changed into cathedralporticos, the Book is crowded with un-sightly columns, mitred and crossedsaints. Figures on copper plates replaced the… … Fig. 100.—Letter engraved byA. Bosse. 102 The Book: pre-eminent in Holland. Literary taste also underwent achange ; manners were no longer those of the sixteenth century,bold, free, and gay ; from the religious wars a certain hypocrisyarose ; bombast replaced the natural ; the gods were…
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