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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 · London, H. Grevel & Co. · leaf 25

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ate, cut in Flanders (1440), representing Jesus after the flagellation. century, and it was employed principally for popular works, thetaste for which was then universal. The engraving was pro-bably a kind of imposition, being palmed off as a manuscript; thevignettes were often covered with… … jacotyjuAiotxxwfcftesw lee-greenfly gattem^ | Fig. 4.—Xylographic Plate, representing St. John. Ca. 1440. Witha text of the commandments of the Church. cards, were but indifferent. The drawing and the cutting wereequally unskilful, as we may convince ourselves from the fac-similes given by M. H.…

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