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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 97

An illustration from Early woodcut initials : containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, 1908, leaf 97 — e of a greyish colour which, taken together withthe clear way in which they are printed, is most ornamental. The mythological letters are from a book of Italian poetry, Stampato in Lione, per Jacopo Pabio. Appresso Bastiano diBartholomeo Ilonorati, 1556, and, with the exception of theS, which is… … CHAPTER XIPARIS S with Lyons, the material upon whichone could draw for Paris is almostinexhaustible. Dibdin considers theinitials of this town to be the finest thatcan be found, and gives the letters of JosseBade with branches growing out of theheads of the personages as examples.As regards book…

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