Early woodcut initials : containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (1908)
Jennings, Oscar · London : Methuen · leaf 58
sert and expert master JohannPfeyl. In the splendid full-page engraving on vellum, whichin many missals is the chief attraction to collectors, there isa view in the distance of the town of Bamberg. The initials are so curious that we have reproduced themall. One or two are repeated; the G,… … CHAPTER VISTRASBURG AND REUTLINGEN ITII Knoblochtzcr, Schott, and Prusz, thefirst commencing in 1477, Griininp^erand Hupfuft at the end of the fifteenthcentury, we have printers who made aliberal use of initials. Knoblochtzerhas been thoroughly explored by MM.Schorbach and Spirgatis, and a…
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