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Early illustrated books : a history of the decoration and illustration of books in the 15th and 16th centuries (1917)

Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944 · London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner · leaf 137

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Of course, in many cases the cutswere sadly the worse for wear, but they held onwonderfully, and even in the seventeenth centuryeditions a tolerable impression is sometimes metwith. Many of them, also, were recut, sometimesskilfully, so that it is not uncommon to find abetter example in a later… … Martyrdom of S. Dorothea. 128 Early Illustrated Books is an argument for its belonging to the beginningof the sixteenth century, and a picture of themartyrdom of S. Dorothea from an edition of herRappresentatione printed in 1555. With these religious Rappresentazioni M. Colombde Batines joins a few…

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