Early woodcut initials : containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (1908)
Jennings, Oscar · London : Methuen · leaf 130
a pleasing compliment from Parker to hispredecessor. The ornamental title-page to the Bishops Bible is notwoodcut but engraved on copper, and the fact is significant.Under Days guidance English printing and book-illustration io8r lifted up their head, but the effort came too late. Afterabout 1580… … U L M INITIAL WITH nORDHR FROM THEXYLOGRAPHIC DONATUS OF DINCKMUT