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Bouchot, Henri,1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C.(Edward Clements),1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton,1848-1897 · London, H. Grevel & Co. · leaf 123
we may call a skilled typographer ; virum hujus artis solertissimum, he writes without false 104 THE Book. modesty. At times, in the colophons of his books, he at-tempted Latin verse, the Sapphic verse of Horace, of a playfulturn, to say that his work was perfected in 1494. Arte et expensis… … Fig 62.—Frontispiece to Terence, published by Treschel at Lyonsin 1493. The author writing his book. The portrait is another element of illustration, the figure ofthe author is prefixed to his work. It had already been acustom in the manuscripts to paint on the first leaf of the workthe likeness of…
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