Early woodcut initials : containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (1908)
Jennings, Oscar · London : Methuen · leaf 111
ntli Century, has given a reproductionof one of the pages on which there is the very characteristicserpentine S, which is here given with the T and the V. Printers in the other towns would seem to have beensupplied with the worn-out initials of the Rouen and Lyonspresses. In the few books with… … CHAPTER XIIISPANISH TOWNS iPANISH books, says Mr. Pollard, aredistinguished by the excellence of theirinitial letters, which are always as plenti-ful as they are good, the great majorityof books after 1485 being fully providedwith them. Our own experience confirms this state-ment, but we have found…
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