Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects (1902)
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944, Pollard, Alice · London : Methuen and co. · leaf 43
e greater of the two.An edition of the play of * S. Cecilia, probably printed 30 OLD PICTURE BOOKS about 1560, affords a good example of the gradual additionof cuts in later reprints. This little tract of about twentypages has no fewer than eighteen pictures in it, three ofwhich, however, are only… … FROM THE KAl1RESENTAZIONE DI S. CECILIA, S.A. of blocks used was only thirteen, though these yieldedeighteen impressions. As might be expected, the littlepictures are often dragged in with very little appropriate-ness. Thus, the Roman soldiers sent to arrest Ceciliagave the publisher ar excuse to…
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