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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; New York, E.P. Dutton · leaf 248

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fferent. The heavy English black letterrequired something bolder, and unless these borderswere heavily cut, they looked particularly meagre.A very beautiful title-page of this type (here some-what reduced) is that in Sir Thomas Elyots Imageof Governance, printed by Thomas Berthelet atLondon in… … 238 Early Illustrated Books mixture of styles, for nothing could be more opposedin feeling than the early school of English cuts and

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