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 39
r gate,and women walking with a child in a fair garden,—this to symbolise the widowers choice betweenremarriage and retiring to a monastery ; (5) thewidower appearing before Christ, who gives theverdict against him, since all mortals must yieldtheir bodies to Death and their souls to God. Thecuts… … 30 Early Illustrated Books the next innovation with which we have to concernourselves is the adoption of the title-page. Whatmay be called accidental title-pages are found onboth the Latin and the German edition of a Bull ofPope Pius II. printed by Fust and Schoeffer in 1463.After this Arnold ther…
Illustrated books · Incunabula
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