Early Woodcut Initials
by Oscar Jennings
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About this eBook
- Author
- Jennings, Oscar
- Title
- Early Woodcut Initials Containing over Thirteen Hundred Reproductions of Ornamental Letters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
- Original Publication
- UK: Methuen and Co., 1908.
- Credits
- Charlene Taylor, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Block books
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 65847
- Release Date
- July 15, 2021
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.EARLY WOODCUT INITIALS
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.CHAPTER I BLOCK-BOOKS: THE INVENTION OF PRINTING: THE PSALTER OF MAYENCE
- 6.CHAPTER II AUGSBURG
- 7.CHAPTER III ULM AND NUREMBERG — Nuremberg.
- 8.CHAPTER IV BASLE AND ZURICH — Zurich.
- 9.CHAPTER V LÜBECK AND BAMBERG — Bamberg.
- 10.CHAPTER VI STRASBURG AND REUTLINGEN — Reutlingen.
- 11.CHAPTER VII COLOGNE AND GENEVA — Geneva.
- 12.CHAPTER VIII VENICE
- 13.CHAPTER IX OTHER ITALIAN TOWNS — Rome
- 14.CHAPTER X LYONS
- 15.CHAPTER XI PARIS
- 16.CHAPTER XII FRENCH PROVINCIAL TOWNS
- 17.CHAPTER XIII SPANISH TOWNS
- 18.CHAPTER XIV EARLY DUTCH INITIALS
- 19.CHAPTER XV LATER GERMAN INITIALS
- 20.CHAPTER XVI ENGLISH INITIALS
- 21.REPRODUCTIONS OF INITIALS — ULM — INITIALS FROM BLOCK BOOKS — MAYENCE — AUGSBURG — ULM — NUREMBERG — BASLE — ZÜRICH — LÜBECK — BAMBERG — STRASBURG — REUTLINGEN — GENEVA — COLOGNE — VENICE — ROME — SIENNA — COMO — PAVIA — SALUZZO — VERONA — VICENZA — BRESCIA — FERRARA — MILAN — LYONS — PARIS — TROYES — ROUEN — AVIGNON — POITIERS — FRANCE — SPANISH TOWNS — EARLY DUTCH INITIALS — LATER GERMAN INITIALS — ENGLISH INITIALS
- 22.INDEX — Transcriber’s Notes
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