Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects (1902)
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944, Pollard, Alice · London : Methuen and co. · leaf 141
ob and the A of the First Book of Chroniclesare awkwardly divided by their cross-bars, so that eachhas to contain two insignificant little pictures instead of asingle important one. In most German Bibles I have seen 128 OLD PICTURE BOOKS these pictorial initials are more or less thickly coloured,so… … 3. FROM THE GERMAN BIBLE PRINTED BY FRISNER AND SENSENSCHMIDTAT NUREMBERG, ABOUT I476 Outside Germany, as we have said, pictorial initials didnot flourish much in the early days of printing, for thefinest printers, as a rule, abjured initials altogether, andthe few who used them rightly preferred…
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