A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical (1881)
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864, Jackson, John, 1801-1848, Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884 · New York : J. W. Bouton · leaf 232
NNEXION WITH THE PRESS. 207 sometimes seen in old books of the sixteenth century, or for St. Catherine,whose shrine on Mount Sinai was visited by Breydenbach in histravels, I shall not pretend to determine. The arms on her right areBreydenbachs own; on her left are the arms of John, Count of… … St. Catherine, it may be observed, was esteemed the patroness of learnedmen, and her figure was frequently placed in libraries in Catholiccountries, in the same manner as the bust of Minerva in the librariesof ancient Greece and Eome. The name of the artist by whom thefrontispiece to Breydenbachs…
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