INDEX 319 LIST OF PLATES I. Deucalion and Pyrrha repeopling the world. From Ovid's _Metamorphoses_, Paris, 1767 _Frontispiece_ TO FACE PAGE II. An author (Caxton?) presenting a book to Margaret of Burgundy. Fifteenth century engraving inserted in the Chatsworth copy of the _Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye_ 1 (From the plate made for the Bibliographical Society's edition of Mr. Seymour De Ricci's _Census of Caxtons_.) III. The "Bona Inspiratio angeli contra vanam gloriam." From a smaller version of the _Ars Moriendi_. Block-book from the Lower Rhine, _c._ 1465 26 IV. Leaf 3a of a fragment of the _Doctrinale_ of Alexander Gallus. One of the so-called "Costeriana" 32 V. Beginning, with printed capital, of the _Rationale Diuinorum Officiorum_ of Gulielmus Duranti. Mainz, Fust and Schoeffer, 1459 44 VI. Leaf 7b of the first book printed at Cologne, Cicero, _De Officiis_, Ulrich Zel, not later than 1466 60 The space left in the sixth line from the foot stands for the words _ab ostentatione_, which the printer apparently could not read in his manuscript. The word _vacat_ at the end was inserted to show that the space in the last line was accidental and that nothing had been omitted. VII. Leaf 41a of Cicero's _Rhetorica_, Venice, Nicolas Jenson, 1470, showing spaces left for a chapter heading and capital 84 VIII. Part of leaf 4a, with woodcut, from the _Geschicht von dem seligen Kind Symon_ of Tuberinus. Augsburg, Gunther Zainer, about 1475 100 IX. Woodcuts of Saracens and Syrians from Breidenbach's _Sanctae Peregrinationis in montem Syon atque in montem Sinai descriptio_. Mainz, Erhard Reuwich, 1486 114 X. Woodcut on leaf 1b of the _Egloga Theoduli_. Leipzig, Conrad Kachelofen, 1489 116 XI. Page (sig. H 8 verso) from the _Psalterium Beatae Mariae Virginis_ of Nitschewitz, showing the Emperor Frederick and his son Maximilian. From a press at the Cistercian Monastery at Zinna, _c._ 1493 118 XII. The Harrowing of Hell, with text, from leaf 4a of the _Belial_ of Jacobus de Theramo. Haarlem, Bellaert, 1484. (Size of the original, 7(1/4)" X 5") 120 XIII. Woodcut of the Betrayal. From leaf 14b of the _Meditatione sopra la Passione del Nostro Signore_ attributed to S. Bonaventura. Venice, Geronimo di Sancti, 1487. (Size of original, 6(3/4)" X 5(1/4)") 124