Bladen, William, Dublin printer, 243 Bladi, printers at Rome, 169 Blaew, William, improves printing-press, 297 Block-books, 19-31, 118 Blomefield, Francis, private press, 238 Boccaccio, Giov., _De Casibus Illustrium virorum_, 144, 159, 186, 213, 256, 258 note, 270; _De claris mulieribus_, 106, 122, 162, 186; _Decamerone_, 291 Bodleian Library, effect of its foundation on private book-collecting, 3 Bodoni, Giovanni Battista, printer at Parma, 300 _Boec von der Houte. See_ Cross, the Holy Boitard, Peter, illustrator, 296 Bonaventura, S., illustrations to his _Devote Meditatione_, 123, 125, 138 Bonhomme, Jean, his illustrated books, 144, 158 Book-illustration, natural method of, 100; in Germany and Holland, 102-22, 181-94; in Italy, 123-42, 194-6; in France and Spain, 143-64, 197-202; in England, 250-66; engraved, 267-96 Borderpieces, stamped by illuminators, 125; Venetian, 125, 133; Florentine, 133; other Italian, 140, 142; Spanish, 162; Basel, 191; London, 252, 256, 258 _sq._, 266 Boston, Mass., early printing, 247; modern, 308 Boucher, Francois, illustrator, 290 Bradford, Andrew, printer at Philadelphia, 248 -- William, first printer at Philadelphia, 247; and at New York, 248 Bradshaw, Henry, his claim for bibliography, 12; on the printer of the _Speculum_, 40 Brandis, Lucas, first Lubeck printer, 64, 114 Brant, Sebastian, connected with book-illustration, 110, 112, 161, 213, 254, 256 Brass, types made of, 212 note Breidenbach, Bernhard von, his arms on a Mainz _Agenda_, 114; his _Peregrinatio in Montem Syon_, 115, 161, 162, 270 Brinckley, Stephen, Jesuit printer, 228 Bristol printing, 237 _sq._ British Museum, bequests to, 4-6; block-books in, 31 Brosamer, Hans, Bibles illustrated by, 190 Broughton, Hugh, plates in his _Concent of Scripture_, 283 Bruges early printing, 73, 122, 205 _sq._; engravings in books printed at, 270-3 Brussels early printing, 73 Brydges, Sir Egerton, private press, 239 Buckner, John, Virginia printer, 249 Bulkley, Stephen, printer at York, 237 Bulle, John, printer at Rome, Lettou's relation with, 210 Bunyan, John, portrait in _Pilgrim's Progress_, 289 Burghers, Michael, engraver, 294 Burgkmair, Hans, illustrator, 185 _sq._, 188 _sq._ Burgundy, Margaret Duchess of. _See_ Margaret Bynneman, Henry, London printer, 220, 228 Cagli, good roman type, 89 _Calendar of Shepherds_, French editions, 145; English, 254, 256 Cambridge, printing at, 225, 234 _sq._, 300 Cambridge, Mass., printing at, 244 _sq._, 308 _Canon Missae_, Mainz edition of, 55; Crucifixion woodcut to, 109, 129 Canterbury, printing at, 227 _Canterbury Tales. See_ Chaucer _Canticum Canticorum_, block-book, 26, 118 Caoursin, Gulielmus, woodcuts in books by, 107 Capell, Edward, bequeaths his Shakespeare books to Trin. Coll., Camb., 5