Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects (1902)
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944, Pollard, Alice · London : Methuen and co. · leaf 146
the Renaissance,unlike their craftsman predecessors, had no feeling forbook-work as such, and it must be confessed that theprinters repaid them by printing their delicate work witha carelessness which in most cases completely obscures it.Henceforth the predominant type of pictorial initial is one… … 6. I-ROM THE VALLISUMBROSA MISSAL, PRINTED BY GIUNTA AT VENICE, I503 ference for small books over bulky folios carried with it agreat reduction in the size of initials, the refusal of theartists to simplify their designs, so as to accommodate them 134 OLD PICTURE BOOKS to these narrower limits…
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