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 425
be difficult to select twenty that can be considered reallyexcellent both in execution and design. One of the principal pub-lishers of Lyons at that time was Jean de Tournes; many of theworks which issued from his press display great typographic excel-lence, and in almost all the cuts are engraved… … The design of the cut displays something of the taste for emblemand device* which was then so prevalent, and which became sogenerally diffused by the frequent editions of Alciats Emblems, thefirst of which was printed about 1531. The portraits of Petrarchand Laura, looking not unlike Philip and…
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