Rariora; being notes of some of the printed books, manuscripts, historical documents, medals, engravings, pottery, etc., collected (1858-1900) (1902)
Hodgkin, John Eliot · London : S. Low, Marston & Co., ltd. · leaf 175
o of printers. Though not absolutely the pioneers in the practiceof substituting floriated woodcut borders and initials in the printed text for those hithertosupplied by the hand of the illuminator or rubricator, they were among the very earliestto reahze the attractive appearance which could be… … INCUNABULA. 125 Bernard Fictor, and continued to print alone till 1485, discarding for the most part his beautiful roman fora gothic character. Peter Loslein printed in 1483 a couple of volumes on his own account. BernhardPictor was probably the artist to whom the high character of the earliest…
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