Grolier Club--Catalogue of an exhibition of illuminated and painted manuscripts, together with a few early printed books with illuminations; also some examples of Persian manuscripts, with plates in facsimile and an introductory essay. _New York, privately printed, the Grolier Club, 1892._ Humphreys--The illuminated books of the Middle Ages. An account of the development and progress of the art of illumination as a distinct branch of pictorial ornamentation from the _4_th to the _17_th centuries. _London, 1849._ A standard work on the illuminated books of the Middle Ages. Martin--La miniature Française du _13_th au _15_th siècle. _Paris and Brussels, 1923._ A standard work on French illuminated manuscripts. Periods of Typography--A series of handbooks to historic style in printing. Under the general editorship of Stanley Morison. The first volumes are now issued and others will follow from time to time. Each volume will contain an essay which will introduce the reader to the principal formative influences and to outstanding examples of the respective periods. The introductions are written from the standpoint of the amateur interested in the part played by the printed book in the society and culture of its period, each by experts. Plomer (Henry R.)--English printers’ ornaments. _Grafton, London._ The subject of printers’ ornaments can be clearly defined in its stricter meaning as the decoration of books apart from book illustration. Printers’ ornaments include head and tail pieces, initial letters, borders to title pages or text, and decorative blocks such as those which were used freely by the 16th century printer, Henry Bynneman, and others. Pollard (A. W.)--Fine books. _Illus. 1912._ Silvestre (L. C.)--Marques typographiques on recueil des monogrammes, chiffres, enseignes, emblèmes, devises, rébus et fleurons des libraires et imprimeurs qui ont exercé en France, depuis l’introduction de l’Imprimerie, en _1470_, jusqu’à la fin du seizième siècle; a ces marques sont jointes celles des Libraires et Imprimeurs qui pendant la meme période ont publié, hors de France, des livres en langue française. _2 vols. Paris, 1853-67._ This work contains over thirteen hundred reproductions of printers’ marks and is looked upon as the standard work on printers’ marks. Sotheby (S. Leigh)--The typography of the Fifteenth Century: being specimens of the productions of the early Continental printers, exemplified in a collection of facsimilies from 100 works, together with their water-marks. _London, 1845._ Contains _26_ plates of water-marks. Steele (Robert)--The revival of printing. A bibliographical catalogue of works issued by the chief modern English presses, with an introduction by Robert Steele. _London, 1912._ Imprinted in the Riccardi Press Fount, by Charles T. Jacobi, with facsimiles of the type employed by other presses.