The printed book, its history, illustration, and adornment, from the days of Gutenberg to the present time (1887)
Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899 · London, H. Grevel and co. · leaf 160
shment of theEast India Company in the last year of the century. ENGLISH BOOKS OF THE i6TH CENTURY. I49 The first specimen of copper plate engraving forbooks in England is a frontispiece to Galens DeTcmpcramentiSy printed at Cambridge 1521, and thenumber of books containing copper plates… … Fig. 68.—Woodcut by Hans Holbein from CranmersCatechism, 154S. Harringtons translation of Ariosto, 1591, with forty-seven engraved plates. The first printer at Cambridge was John Siberch,1521. Peter of Treves established himself at South-wark in 1514. Among his productions is a…
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