INITIALS BY PILGRIM IN THE ‘ELEGANTIAE’ OF LAURENTIUS VALLA, BY SCHURER, SCHLESTADT [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM THE ‘MISSALE PATAVIENSE’ OF WINTERBERGER, VIENNA [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM WORKS PRINTED BY KNOBLOUCH [Illustration] FROM A METZ PSALTER BY CASPAR HOCHFFEDER [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM PLINIUS OF HAGENAU, USED AFTERWARDS AT COLOGNE [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM A MAGDEBURG BIBLE [Illustration] BY SCHEFFER OF MAYENCE [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM THE ‘ASTRONOMICON CESAREUM’ OF APIANUS [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM THE ‘ASTRONOMICON CESAREUM’ OF APIANUS [Illustration] FROM AN ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENT ENGLISH INITIALS [Illustration] CAXTON’S ‘A’ [Illustration] WYNKYN DE WORDE’S BORROWED ‘H’ [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] FROM PYNSON’S MORTON MISSAL [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] INITIALS USED BY JOHN DAY [Illustration] INITIAL WITH ARMS OF ARCHBISHOP CRANMER, FROM THE BISHOPS’ BIBLE [Illustration] INITIAL WITH ARMS OF HENRY VII., FROM GRAFTON’S EDITION OF ‘HALLE’S CHRONICLE’ [Illustration] INITIAL WITH ARMS OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER, FROM DAY’S EDITION OF CUNNINGHAM’S ‘COSMOGRAPHICAL GLASS’ [Illustration] PORTRAIT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH FROM DAY’S EDITION OF FOXE’S ‘BOOK OF MARTYRS’ INDEX PAGE Æsop, initial from Scheffer’s edition, 112 ---- initial from Albi edition, 95, 252 Albi, initial in the _manière éraillée_, from Æsop printed at, 95, 252 _Alvarus Pelagius_ of J. Zainer, border used in, 23 Alvera, J., initial used by, at Coimbra, 253 Ambrose, St., portrait initial of, 211 Antwerp, initial from title-page of book printed at, 102, 262 ---- initials used in books printed by G. Leeu at, 102, 261 Apianus, P., initials from _Astronomicon Cesareum_ printed by, 107, 274 _sq._ Apocalypse, different editions of the block-book, 4 Arion, initial representing the adventure of, 61 Aristotle, _Opera Nonnulla_ printed by Keller, 17 ---- initials in editions of, by H. Estienne, 232 Arrivabene, George, initials from missals printed by, 59, 171 _sqq._ _Ars Memorandi_, historical initial in the, 5, 112 _Ars Moriendi_, the block-book, 4