Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects (1902)
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944, Pollard, Alice · London : Methuen and co. · leaf 151
tters. Some of them come invery neatly, thus E and Europa riding on her bull, M andMercury, T and a lady, who may very well be Thetis, OLD PICTURE BOOKS haranguing a council of Gods, another T with Neptuneflourishing a very prominent Trident, go well enough together, but whyshould a W be… … 8. PICTORIAL INITIAL ATTRIBUTED TOANTON SYLVIUS signers rather as de- sirablethan essential.The same pointarises as to a much clumsier pictorial alphabet, with largefigures in it, found in books and proclamations, printedfrom 1547 onwards. Here the picture belonging to the Tis of Christ and the…
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