Early woodcut initials : containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (1908)
Jennings, Oscar · London : Methuen · leaf 44
nin German books, and that were little used elsewhere, taking 27 their place. Butsch in his reproductions of alphabets of thisperiod does not give any specimens. This is all the moreremarkable in that Nuremberg was the home of Albert Diirerand the great centre of the wood-engravers art. The… … CHAPTER IVBASLE AND ZURICH RINTING was introduced into Baslebefore 1468, having been preceded, as inmost other towns of the upper Rhine, byxylographic j)ublications. No Basle bookbears a printed date earlier than 1473,but the absence of such printed datedoes not prove that the introduction…
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