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قراءة كتاب Early Illustrated Books A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries
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Early Illustrated Books A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries
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Books about Books
Edited by A. W. Pollard
Early Illustrated Books
Early Illustrated Books
A History of the Decoration and
Illustration of Books in the
15th and 16th Centuries
By Alfred W. Pollard
Second Edition
London
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
First Edition, 1893
Second Edition, revised and corrected
May 1917
The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved
Preface
This little book was written nearly a quarter of a century ago in the enthusiasm of a first acquaintance with a fascinating subject, and with an honest endeavour to see for myself as many as possible of the books I set out to describe. If I had tried to rewrite it now I might have made it more interesting to experts, but at the cost of destroying whatever merit it possesses as an introductory sketch. I have therefore been content to correct, as thoroughly as I could, its many small errors (not all of my own making), more especially those due to the ascription of books to impossible dates and printers, which before the publication of Robert Proctor's Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum, in 1898, was very difficult to avoid. In these emendations, and in getting the titles of foreign books into better form, I have had much kind help from Mr. Victor Scholderer of the British Museum. I am grateful also to Mr. E. Gordon Duff for his leave to use again the chapter on English Illustrated Books which he kindly wrote for me for the first edition.
A. W. P.
Contents
| CHAPTER I | |
| page | |
| Rubrishers and Illuminators | 1 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| The Completion of the Printed Book | 22 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| Germany—I. | 37 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| Germany—II. | 56 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| Italy—I. | 79 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| Italy—II. | 108 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| France | 142 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| The French Books of Hours | 174 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| Holland | 195 |
| CHAPTER X | |
| Spain | 209 |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| England. By E. Gordon Duff | 219 |
| Index | 249 |
EARLY ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
CHAPTER I
RUBRISHERS AND ILLUMINATORS
No point in the history of printing has been more rightly insisted on than that the early printers were compelled to make the very utmost of their new art in order to justify its right to exist. When a generation had passed by, when the scribes trained in the first half of the fifteenth century had died or given up the struggle, when printing-presses had invaded the very monasteries themselves, and clever boys no longer regarded penmanship as a possible profession, then, but not till