Lübeck is represented here by two printers, Lucas Brandis and Bartholomew Ghotan. In one of his recent catalogues J. Rosenthal has given the reproduction of an alphabet from a Herbal, but the letters are of very little interest, being about the same size as those of the Ulm Boccaccio and with the same kind of ornamentation. As the first letters used in the town of Ulm, and one of the first sets used by any printer, and so showing the evolution of typographical ornamentation, the Ulm initials have a certain interest, but they would not have been worth reproducing from a book dated almost twenty years later. Lucas Brandis published two immense folios, the _Rudimenta Novitiorum_, the Latin original of the _Mer des Hystoires_, the other the History of the Jews by Josephus. The first, which appeared in 1477, is a kind of History of the World, and, like the Nuremberg Chronicle, is full of cuts representing towns, kings, philosophers, and other subjects. These, however, are much less interesting than the initials, which are the first examples of what are called _passe-partouts_, the central picture being removable at will and adaptable to any frame. Some of them are special to one or other volume, but most of them are to be found in both. The most curious is perhaps the I at the beginning of the volume on page 3, of the purest manuscript character, and entirely different from anything we have met with elsewhere. The Q of the _Quinta Ætas_, with a battle-scene, is a favourite one for reproduction. Dibdin, who gives it in the _Bibliotheca Spenceriana_, considers it to be ‘the most remarkable’ of a ‘very splendid and noteworthy book,’ and it has lately been reproduced in a monograph on Lübeck printing, but a quarter only of its right size, giving no idea whatever of how it looks in the original. On page 289 is a C with the Virgin, unfortunately too badly daubed over in the Bibliothèque Nationale copy to permit of reproduction. The interior, the Virgin and Child, is given as a cut by itself without the letter, on the verso of the same page, and in other places. Of our three other specimens Mr. Pollard has already given one, the ‘Knight Templar,’ in an essay on the subject now reprinted in a volume called _Old Picture-Books_.