Early Woodcut Initials

Early Woodcut Initials

Early Woodcut Initials - Containing over Thirteen Hundred Reproductions of Ornamental Letters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth...
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Early Woodcut Initials

Early Woodcut Initials

¥2,050 ¥1,024

Early Woodcut Initials

¥2,050 ¥1,024
Author: Jennings, Oscar
Format: eBook
Language: English

Early Woodcut Initials - Containing over Thirteen Hundred Reproductions of Ornamental Letters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

The ornamentation of books dates probably from the time of their invention, that is to say, it goes back to a very remote antiquity. From Greece, where the book-trade was flourishing at an early period, it passed into Italy, extending thence to the provinces of the Empire, to Gaul and Spain, where book-lovers became more and more numerous, and as civilisation became more refined, increasingly particular about bindings and ornamentation. The verse of Tibullus, shows the extent of the embellishments to which bibliophiles had then become accustomed, requiring the titles of their favourite authors to be engrossed in coloured or illuminated letters.[2] [2] Numerous passages might be quoted from Latin writers to show how great an interest they took in books, and how valuable rare, and what might be called original, editions had even then become. It would seem, too, that they even knew the pleasures of book-hunting, for Aulus Gellius relates how, having a few hours to spare after landing at Brindisi, he spent his time looking through the contents of an old book-stall, and was lucky enough to discover a very old work on occult science. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 65847
Author: Jennings, Oscar
Release Date: Jul 15, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

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