The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 618
uarto sizes, the result of fold-ing the sheet of paper in two or in fourrespectively ; but the length and breadth ofthese sizes varied according to the require-ments of typography and the dimensionsof the press. At the end of the fifteenthcentury, however, the advantages of theoctavo were already… … Fig. 413.—Border taken from the Livre dHeures of Geoffroi Tory (1525) 5i8 PRINTING. SI The ink was black, bright, indelible, un-alterable, penetrating deeply into the paper,and composed, as already were the colours,of oil-paint. The paper, which was cer-tainly rather grey or yellow, and oftencoarse…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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