Illustrated books -- Bibliography; Illustration of books; Printing -- History
XIV. Woodcut, De Atheniensibus petentibus regem, illustrating
Fable xxii. in the _Aesop_ printed at Naples, by Francesco
Tuppo, 1485 126
XV. Woodcut of Lorenzo Giustiniano preceded by a crucifer,
from his _Della vita religiosa_. Venice, 1494 130
XVI. Page with woodcut of the Procession to Calvary, from the
_Meditatione sopra la Passione del Nostro Signore_ attributed
to S. Bonaventura. Florence, Ant. Miscomini, _c._ 1495 138
XVII. Titlepage of _La Festa di San Giovanni_. Florence, Bart.
di Libri, _c._ 1495 140
XVIII. Leaf 5a, with woodcut of Death seizing an Archbishop
and a Chevalier, from the _Danse Macabre_. Paris, Gui
Marchant, 1491. (Size of original 8(3/4)" X 6(1/4)") 144
XIX. Leaf 2a, with woodcut of Adam and Eve, from a _Bible en
Francoys_. Paris, Antoine Verard, about 1505. (Size of
original, 9(3/4)" X 7") 150
XX. Page (sig. C 6 verso), with woodcut of the Massacre of the
Innocents, from the _Grandes Heures_. Paris, Antoine Verard,
about 1490. (Size of original, 7(7/8)" X 5(1/4)") 152
XXI. Page (sig. U 7 verso) from the edition of _Terence_,
printed by J. Trechsel at Lyon, 1493 160
XXII. Titlepage from the _Improbratio Alcorani_ of Ricoldus.
Seville, Stanislaus Polonus, 1500 162
XXIII. Hroswitha presenting her plays to the Emperor Otto I,
leaf 4b of the _Opera Hrosvite_. Nuremberg, Sodalitas Celtica,
1501 180
XXIV. Titlepage of Jornandes _De rebus Gothorum_. Augsburg,
1515 186
XXV. Page (leaf 246b) of a _Missale Romanum_, printed at
Venice by Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1518 194
XXVI. Title-cut from _Les dix premiers livres de l'Iliade
d'Homere, Prince des poetes, traduictz en vers Francois, par
M. Hugues Salel_. Paris, Jehan Loys for Vincent Sertenas, 1545 200
XXVII. Page from the _Fifteen Oes_. Westminster, Caxton, about
1490 204
XXVIII. First page of text from the first edition (left
incomplete) of Tyndale's _New Testament_. Cologne, 1525 224
XXIX. Part of sig. K 5 recto, with woodcut of Christ raising
the Centurion's Daughter, from the _Speculum Vitae Christi_ of
S. Bonaventura. Westminster, W. Caxton, about 1488 250
XXX. Titlepage of Bishop Fisher's Funeral Sermon on Henry VII.
London, W. de Worde, 1509 254
XXXI. Woodcut of the translator presenting his book to the
Duke of Norfolk, from Alexander Barclay's version of Sallust's
_Jugurtha_. London, R. Pynson, about 1520 256
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