P. 268. A recent proof of the revival of taste in book-decoration and artistic printing in Italy may be referred to here as showing the influence of the English movement. I mean the edition of Gabriele d'Annunzio's "Francesca da Rimini" with illustrations or rather decorations by Adolphus de Karolis, printed by the Fratelli Treves in 1902. This book shows unmistakable signs of study of recent English work, as well as of the early printers of Venice, and it is strange to think how sometimes artists of one country may come back to an appreciation of a particular period of their own historic art by the aid of foreign spectacles. Among the original designers of modern Italy may be mentioned G. M. Mataloni, who shows remarkable powers of draughtsmanship and invention, largely spent upon posters and ex-libris. Italy, too, has an able critic and chronicler of the work of book-designers of all countries in Sig. Vittorio Pica of Naples, whose "Attraverso gli Albi e le Cartelle" (Istituto Italiano d'arti grafiche editore Bergamo) is very comprehensive. In Vienna Prof. Larisch recently published a book of Alphabets designed by various artists of Europe; Germany, France, Italy, and England being represented. The group of Viennese artists known as the "Secession" have issued "Ver Sacrum," a monthly journal, or magazine, giving original designs of various artists more or less in the direction of book-decoration. Latterly the designs offered seemed to lose themselves either in an affectation of primitiveness and almost infantine simplicity, or the wildest grotesqueness and eccentricity. APPENDIX. [Illustration: HEADPIECE BY ALAN WRIGHT.] [Illustration: I. IRISH. VITH Century. BOOK OF KELLS. [_See page 13._] [Illustration: II. ENGLISH. XIVTH CENTURY. ARUNDEL PSALTER, 1339. [_See page 16._] [Illustration: III. ENGLISH. XIVTH CENTURY. ARUNDEL PSALTER, 1339. [_See page 16._] [Illustration: IV. ENGLISH. XIVTH CENTURY. ARUNDEL PSALTER, 1339. [_See page 16._] [Illustration: V. FRENCH. XIVTH CENTURY. EPISTLE OF PHILIPPE DE COMINES TO RICHARD II. [_See page 23._] [Illustration: VI. FRENCH. XVTH CENTURY. BEDFORD HOURS, PAGE OF CALENDAR, A.D. 1422. [_See page 23._] [Illustration: VII. FRENCH. XVTH CENTURY. BEDFORD HOURS, A.D. 1422. [_See page 23._] [Illustration: VIII. ENGLISH. LATE XVTH CENTURY. ROMANCE OF THE ROSE. [_See page 29._] [Illustration: IX. ITALIAN. XVTH CENTURY. INITIAL LETTER, CHOIR BOOK, SIENA (1468----1472-3). [_See page 30._] [Illustration: X. JAPANESE. XIXTH CENTURY. HOKUSAI. [_See page 163._] [Illustration: XI. JAPANESE. XIXTH CENTURY. HOKUSAI. [_See page 163._] INDEX. ABBEY, Edwin, 166. _Æsop's Fables_ (Venice, 1493), 293. ---- (Ulm, 1498), 53. ---- (Naples, 1485), 55. "Aglaia," cover for, 154, 157. Alciati's Emblems, 109. Aldus, 62, 63, 65, 108. Alphabet (Dürer's), 299. _Alphabets_ (Bell, 1894), 299, 300. Amman, Jost, 96. American Wood-engraving, 148, 164.