Old picture books ; with other essays on bookish subjects.

Author
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : B. Franklin, [1970]
Description
282 pages : illustrations, coats of arms ; 22 cm.

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Notes
Reprint of the 1902 ed.
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.
ISBN
0833727974
LCCN
71132815
OCLC
122426
RCP
C - S
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