Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects (1902)
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944, Pollard, Alice · London : Methuen and co. · leaf 142
ed purely decorativedesigns. In France, in some editions of the Mer desHistoires and similar books, we find two or three of verylarge size, a huge I, with a figure of Christ within it, andthe P here reproduced (fig. 4), with the usual picture of PICTORIAL AND HERALDIC INITIALS 129 an author at his… … 4. FROM AN OROSIUS PUBLISHED BY VERARD, 1509 Pierre Le Rouge, have any high pictorial value. Inanother L, used at Paris and at Lyons, we have inter-twined the faces of an old man and a young couple flirting.It was no doubt specially designed for the 1492 edition ofI I30 OLD PICTURE BOOKS the…
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