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Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects
Title:
Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects
Author:
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944.
Publication Information:
London : Methuen and co., 1902.
Physical Description:
4preliminary leaves, 282 pages : illustrations, plates ; 23cm
General Note:
Reprint from various sources.
Language:
English
Contents:
Old picture books.--Florentine rappresentazioni and their pictures.--Two illustrated Italian Bibles.--A book of hours.--The transference of woodcuts in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.--Es tu scholaris?--English books printed abroad.--Some pictorial and heraldic initials.--England and the bookish arts.--The first English book sale.--John Durie's 'Reformed librarie-keeper.'--Woodcuts in English plays printed before 1660.--Herrick and his friends.--A poet's studies.--Printers' marks of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.--The Franks collection of armorial book-stamps.--By Alice Pollard: A Queen Anne pocket-book. Why men don't marry.
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