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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 74

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tirely imaginary, and the invention of the artistwas not equal to devising a fresh head for everyperson mentioned in the text, a pardonable economyconsidering that there are sometimes more thantwenty of these heads scattered over a single pageand connected together by the branches of a… … From the Nuremberg Ckroinclc, 64 Early Illustrated Books forthcoming ; while the maps of Venice,^ of Florence,and of other cities of Italy, France, and Germany,appear to give a fair idea of the chief features of theplaces represented. Nuremberg, of course, has thedistinction of two whole pages to…

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