The anthropomorphic letters are to be found in many of the publications both of Knoblochtzer, Schott, and others. These letters are reduced copies of a very celebrated alphabet known as the alphabet of the master E. S. of 1464, specimens of which are given in several works on early engraving. The British Museum has a somewhat similar alphabet, but with the personages in different attitudes, printed originally _au frotton_. Some letters of this were given by Jackson, and the whole was reproduced a few years since by the trustees of the Museum.[21] One of our reproductions, the one with a man holding up a dog by the tail, is from the _Vier und Zwanzig Gulden Harpfen_. The D with a saint is the only initial in an _Albertus Magnus_ of Knoblochtzer; the three others were reproduced from two impressions of Hupfuff, a Melusine and a Boethius of 1500. In the latter is an I of this alphabet which we have not seen elsewhere, but of which the impression is slightly defective.[22] [21] Grotesque Alphabet of 1464, with an Introduction by Campbell Dodgson. [22] The six other initials, the M with two dragons, the S with the letters P, A, and a fool’s head with cap and bells, and the four smaller ones, are from different publications of Knoblochtzer. The M and the P, the Crucifixion and the Nativity, are also taken from a work without date or name of printer, and have hitherto remained undescribed, as far as we know. The work is entitled _Commentarius Sancti Johannis Episcopi Constantinopolitani cognomento Crisostomi in epistolam Sancti Pauli Apostoli ad Hebreos_. The letters would appear to belong to the same alphabet as the C, representing saints and others being put to the torture, which is used by Schott sometimes as a D. This latter is to be found twice in a rare book, the _Scriptum in primum librum Sentenciarum Venerabilis inceptoris fratris Guilhelmi de Ockam_, dated 1483, but without printer’s name, and it occurs as a D in an undated _Secreta_ of Aristotle. The three letters, comprising amongst them the N with the rabbit, and the O with a fool, are from a _Plenarium_ of which we have only seen a fragment, without printer’s name or date, but said to be of Strasburg. The rabbit occurs again in the _Plenarium_ of Urach of 1481, with floral letters somewhat larger than those given here, and also in the _Stella Meschia_ printed at Esslingen, the first book published with Hebrew characters. It has also two full-page illustrations. The six large historiated initials which follow are taken from a Psalter without date or printer’s name. Van Praet in his catalogue of books printed upon vellum belonging to the King’s Library, says that it ‘comes from a German Press.’ Mr. Weale attributes it to Basle, and it is interesting to compare these initials with those which illustrate Furter’s Psalter of 1501-3. It would seem, however, that it is to be attributed to J. Prusz, and that it was printed in 1499 or 1500.