Produced by Simon Gardner, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber's Notes Inconsistent spellings and hyphenation have been retained as in the original. With the exception of minor changes to format or punctuation, any changes to the text are listed at the end of the book. In this Plain Text version of the e-book, symbols from the ASCII character set only are used. The following substitutions are made for accented characters and other symbols in the text: [:a], [:o],[:u] = o-umlaut, u-umlaut [AE], [ae] = ae-ligature [a'], [e'], [o'], [u'] = a-grave, e-grave, o-grave, u-grave [c,] = c-cedilla ['E], ['e] = e-acute [^e] = e-circumflex [et] = Latin Small Letter Et [:e], [:i] = e, i with dieresis [~n] = n-tilde [OE] and [oe] = oe-ligature (upper and lower case). [P] = paragraph symbol ['u] = u-acute [.] = centre dot Other conventions used to represent the original text are as follows: Italic typeface is indicated by _underscores_. Small caps typeface is represented by UPPER CASE. Superscript typeface is preceded by caret (e.g. y^e) Footnotes are numbered in sequence throughout the book and presented at the end of each chapter. * * * * * _Books about Books_ _Edited by A. W. Pollard_ Early Illustrated Books [Illustration] Early Illustrated Books A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries By Alfred W. Pollard [Illustration] _Second Edition_ London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. MDCCCCXVII _First Edition, 1893_ _Second Edition, revised and corrected_ _May 1917_ _The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved_ Preface