Early woodcut initials : containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (1908)
Jennings, Oscar · London : Methuen · leaf 70
in 1498. It is quite possible that the later printerscopied from Wagner, but the design they all use is one thatis frequently met with in old manuscripts, and, like mostother fundamental patterns, there is no doubt that this wasits origin. Our last Geneva specimens are taken from the veryrare… … CHAPTER VIII VENICE T was at Subiaco, not far from Rome,that printing was first introduced bythe (Germans, Conrad Sweynheim andArnold Pannartz, who commencedoperations most probably in 1464, theirfirst book being a Donatus. Thesecond was a Lactantius, the earliestbook in which legible Greek…
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