Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press · leaf 320
with gar-lands or masks, frame these frontispieces that pre-pare the mind of the reader and lure him on, givinga body to thought by showing the invisible. Some-times the frame of the title is a triumphal arch un-der which stands the figure of Erasmus, a statuesqueeffigy, an apotheosis. Hardly has… … WOOD ENGRAVING. 295 are embellished with arabesques, flourish in gardens,move in lively figures. Within the microscopic di-mensions of a letter, Holbein has represented thedrama of Death, twenty-four times repeated. In the diminutive subjects of his alphabets, saysRenouvier, it seems that the…
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