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Early woodcut initials : containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (1908)

Jennings, Oscar · London : Methuen · leaf 88

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lower trans-versal part having been cut afterwards, as can be seen by therough execution and the disturbance of the general orna-mentation. But the transposition of an F into an E is athing that often occurs. The peculiarity here is that at thetenth book, which begins with the feast of All Saints,… … CHAPTItR XLYONS Y its gcoj^^niphical situation, by its proxi-mity to I^aslc, by its condition as a freetown, and tlirouj^di the fairs that attractedwithin its walls the merchants from otherl^arts of France, as well as from Ger-many, Italy, and Holland, Lyons becameat once a typo«j^raphical centre…

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