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Henry VIII. in Council HENRY VIII. IN COUNCIL
(From Holinshed's 'Chronicles of England,' 1577)
Page 100
A BRIEF HISTORY
OF
WOOD-ENGRAVING
FROM ITS INVENTION
BY
JOSEPH CUNDALL
AUTHOR OF 'HOLBEIN AND HIS WORKS' ETC.

 

 

 

LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, & COMPANY
LIMITED
St. Dunstan's House
FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C.
1895


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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
PAGE
On Pictures of Saints—The print of The Virgin with theHoly Child in her Lap in the Bibliothèque Royale deBelgique—On the print of St. Christopher in the SpencerLibrary at Manchester—The Annunciation and the St.Bridget of Sweden 1
CHAPTER II
On the Block Books of the Fifteenth Century—Biblia Pauperum;Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis, &c. 11
CHAPTER III
The Block Books of the Fifteenth Century—Ars Moriendi—TemptacioDiaboli—Canticum Canticorum, and others 20
CHAPTER IV
Block Book—Speculum Humanae Salvationis—CasusLuciferi—The Mentz Psalter of 1459—Book of Fables—TheCologne Bible—Nürnberg Chronicle—Breydenbach'sTravels 28
CHAPTER V
On Wood-Engraving in Italy in the Fifteenth Century—TheVenice Kalendario of 1476—The Triumph of Petrarch—TheHypnerotomachia Poliphili—Aldo Manuzio—Portraitof Aldus 40
{viii}CHAPTER VI
On Wood-Engraving in
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