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 88
hed by him, inwhich authorised paintersadded miniatures andornaments. It is curiousnow to find what the costto one of the great lordsof the court of CharlesVIII. was of one of thesespecial copies in all thedetails of its impression,and we find it in a docu-ment published by M.Senemaud in a… … hi Fig. 28.—Border of the Granges Heures of Antony Verard :Paris, 1498 (?). penetrate into a printing office of a great French publisher 78 THE PRINTED BOOK. of the fifteenth century. According to this document,V^erard did not disdain to put his own hand to the work,even to carrying the book to the…
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