Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects (1902)
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944, Pollard, Alice · London : Methuen and co. · leaf 138
s naturally Reprinted, by leave of Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner and Co. from Bibliographica,vol. iii. (1896). PICTORIAL AND HERALDIC INITIALS 125 less inclined to be profuse. We know, of course, fromtheir general practice that the early printers had generousideas as to the adaptability of… … I. FROM PTOLEMYS COSMOGRAPHIA, PRINTED BYLEONARD HOLL. ULM, 1482 Leonard Holl prefixed to his edition of Ptolemys Cosmographia (Ulm, 1482) the magnificent, if not veryeasily recognisable, N, which shows the editor, NicolausGermanus, presenting his book to Pope Paul 11. (fig. i), hemust have known…
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