The eighteen nineties; a review of art and ideas at the close of the nineteenth century (1922)
Jackson, Holbrook, 1874-1948 · New York, A.A. Knopf · leaf 297
ca type and pro-fusely and beautifully illustrated with designs and initialletters from woodcuts. It is said to be the first bookpublished in modern times with woodcuts by the artist in apage arranged by himself. Hero and Leander (Marlowe &Chapmans version) is an octavo ; it is conceived in a… … I o ^ THE REVIVAL OF PRINTING 263 Daphnis and Chloe, where the lightness of the subject carriestriumphantly the luxuriance of the decorations. The Sphinx,by Oscar Wilde, is the most remarkable of the books of thisperiod. It is a small quarto in ivory-like vellum, with a richdesign in gold, printed…
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