Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects (1902)
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944, Pollard, Alice · London : Methuen and co. · leaf 103
of free adaptation could easilybe found. When we come to Italy we find a wholly different set ofconditions. Here book-illustration started late, but duringthe twenty years from 1490 to 1510 its vogue wasenormous, and great as was the fertility of the Italiandesigners it was natural that in face of… … CUT FROM THE POLIPHILO OF VENICE, I499. (REDUCED) inspiration in the paintings which he saw around him, inthe engravings on copper which had flourished longbefore book-illustration became popular, in the cuts inforeign books, or in those published in other districts of hisown country, the Italian…
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