The ornamental title-page to the Bishops’ Bible is not woodcut but engraved on copper, and the fact is significant. Under Day’s guidance English printing and book-illustration lifted up their head, but the effort came too late. After about 1580 woodcuts became unfashionable, copper engravings gradually took their place, and the change was fatal to the production of fine initials, of which no more were produced. REPRODUCTIONS OF INITIALS ULM [Illustration] INITIAL WITH BORDER FROM THE XYLOGRAPHIC DONATUS OF DINCKMUT INITIALS FROM BLOCK BOOKS [Illustration] FROM AN ‘ARS MEMORANDI’ [Illustration] FROM THE ‘MIRABILIA ROMAE’ MAYENCE [Illustration] FROM THE ÆSOP OF SCHEFFER [Illustration] FROM THE BREIDENBACH OF ERHARDT REUWICH AUGSBURG [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM G. ZAINER’S SIXTH GERMAN BIBLE AND J. FRIBURGENSIS’ ‘SUMMA CONFESSORUM’ [Illustration] FROM G. ZAINER’S ‘MARGARITA DAVITICA’ [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] INITIALS OF SORG [Illustration] [Illustration] INITIALS OF KELLER [Illustration] [Illustration] INITIALS OF HOHENWANG AND PFLANTZMANN [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] INITIALS OF SCHÖNSPERGER [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] INITIALS OF BÄMLER [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM G. ZAINER’S GERMAN BIBLE [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM G. ZAINER’S GERMAN BIBLE [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM SORG’S ‘SUSO DICTUS AMANDUS’ [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM RATDOLT’S BREVIARY, 1491 [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM RATDOLT’S BREVIARY AND PSALTER, 1491-1499 [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM RATDOLT’S CONSTANCE MISSAL, 1516 [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] INITIALS BY HANS WEIDITZ IN DIFFERENT WORKS PUBLISHED BY STEYNER [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] INITIALS BY HANS WEIDITZ IN DIFFERENT WORKS PUBLISHED BY STEYNER ULM [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM J. ZAINER’S BOCCACCIO [Illustration] [Illustration] OTHER INITIALS OF G. ZAINER [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM THE COSMOGRAPHIA OF PTOLEMY--LEONARD HOLL, 1482 [Illustration] FROM THE ULM BIBLE, 1480 [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] INITIALS OF J. REGER, 1496 NUREMBERG [Illustration] [Illustration] INITIALS OF PETER WAGNER, 1489 [Illustration] INITIAL OF J. REGIOMONTANUS [Illustration] [Illustration]