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English Illumination, 14th Century. From Queen Mary’s
Psalter, Brit. Mus. Royal MS. 2B vii
(in colors and gold) | [Frontis.] |
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John Gutenberg. From Engraving by Alphonse Descaves.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris | page [6] |
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Aldus Manutius. From Engraving at the British Museum
| [10] |
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Dott. Comm. Guido Biagi. Seated at one of the
plutei in the Laurenziana Library, Florence (1906)
| [14] |
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Hand-written Humanistic Characters. From Sinibaldi’s
Virgil, 1485. Laurenziana Library, Florence
| [16] |
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Specimen Page of proposed Edition of Dante. To be printed by
Bertieri, of Milan, in Humanistic Type
| [19] |
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Jenson’s Roman Type. From Cicero: Rhetorica, Venice, 1470
| [22] |
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Emery Walker’s Doves Type. From Paradise Regained,
London, 1905
| [23] |
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Autograph Letter from Charles Eliot Norton
| [31] |
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Illuminated Page of Petrarch’s Triumphs. Set in Humanistic
Type designed by the Author
| [32] |
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Autograph Page of Eugene Field Manuscript. From Second Book of
Verse, New York, 1892
| [39] |
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Autograph Verse in Field’s own Copy of Trumpet and Drum
| [41] |
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John Wilson in 1891. Master-Printer
| [42] |
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Page of Horace Fletcher Manuscript
| [77] |
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Giambattista Bodoni. From Engraving at the Bibliothèque
Nationale, Paris
| [78] |
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The Bodoni Letter compared with the Didot Letter
| [81] |
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Horace Fletcher in 1915
| [82] |
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Autograph Letter from Henry James to Horace Fletcher
| [87] |
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Mirror Title. From Augustinus: Opera. 1485. Laurenziana
Library, Florence
| [94] |
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T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. From Etching by Alphonse Legros, 1893
| [96] |
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Carved Ivory Binding, Jeweled with Rubies and Turquoises. From
Psalter (12th Century). Brit. Mus. Eger. MS. 1139
| [112] |
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Byzantine Illumination (11th Century). Psalter in Greek.
Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 19352
| [118] |
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Celtic Illumination (8th Century). Lindisfarne Gospels.
Brit. Mus. Cotton MS. Nero D. iv
| [124] |
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Carolingian Handwriting (9th Century). Alcuin Bible.
Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 10546
| [126] |
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Carolingian Illumination (9th Century). Golden Gospels of
St. Médard. Bibl. Nat. MS. Lat. 8850
| [128] |
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Gothic Illumination (13th Century). Miniature Page from the
Psalter of St. Louis. Bibl. Nat. MS. Lat. 10525
| [130] |
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Gothic Illumination (13th Century). Text Page from the
Psalter of St. Louis. Bibl. Nat. MS. Lat. 10525
| [132] |
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English Illumination (14th Century). Queen Mary’s Psalter.
Brit. Mus. Royal MS. 2B. vii
| [134] |
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French Illumination (15th Century). Bedford Book of Hours.
Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 18850
| [136] |
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French Renaissance Illumination (15th Century).
Antiquities of the Jews. Bibl. Nat. MS. Français 247
| [138] |
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Flemish Illumination (15th Century). Miniature Page from the
Grimani Breviary. Bibl. S. Marco, Venice
| [142] |
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Flemish Illumination (15th Century). Text Page from the
Grimani Breviary. Bibl. S. Marco, Venice
| [144] |
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Italian Illumination (15th Century). Book of Hours, by
Francesco d’Antonio. R. Lau. Bibl. Ashb. 1874
| [146] |
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French Illumination (16th Century). Miniature from Hours of
Anne of Brittany. Bibl. Nat. MS. Lat. 9474
| [148] |
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French Illumination (16th Century). Text Page from Hours of
Anne of Brittany. Bibl. Nat. MS. Lat. 9474
| [150] |
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Order for Payment of 1050 livres tournois to Jean Bourdichon
for the Hours of Anne of Brittany, 1508
| [152] |
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Autograph Letter from Maurice Hewlett
| [161] |
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Autograph Poem by Austin Dobson
| [167] |
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Mark Twain. At the Villa di Quarto, Florence, 1904.
From a Snap-shot
| [170] |
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Autograph Letter from Mark Twain. With Snap-shot of Villa di
Quarto
| [172] |
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Autograph Letter from William Dean Howells
| [185] |
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Part of a Page from the Vellum Copy of the Gutenberg Bible.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
| [195] |
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Rubricator’s Mark at end of First Volume of a Defective Copy of
the Gutenberg Bible, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
| [196] |
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Rubricator’s Mark at end of Second Volume of a Defective Copy of
the Gutenberg Bible, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
| [197] |
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Gutenberg, Fust, Coster, Aldus Manutius, Froben. From Engraving
by Jacob Houbraken (1698–1780)
| [198] |
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John Fust. From an Old Engraving
| [199] |
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Device and Explicit of Nicolas Jenson
| [203] |
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Jenson’s Gothic Type. From Augustinus: De Civitate Dei,
Venice, 1475
| [205] |
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Device of Aldus Manutius
| [208] |
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Grolier in the Printing Office of Aldus. After Painting by
François Flameng. Through Courtesy the Grolier Club, New
York City
| [208] |
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Text Page from Aldus’ Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Venice,
1499
| [211] |
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Illustrated Page from Aldus’ Hypnerotomachia Poliphili,
Venice, 1499
| [212] |
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Grolier Binding. Castiglione: Cortegiano. Aldine Press, 1518.
Laurenziana Library, Florence
| [212] |
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Grolier Binding. Capella: L’Anthropologia. Aldine Press,
1533. Laurenziana Library, Florence
| [214] |
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Robert Étienne. From Engraving by Étienne Johandier Desrochers
(c. 1661–1741)
| [217] |
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Title Page showing Étienne’s Royal Greeks, Paris, 1550
| [220] |
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Text Page Showing Étienne’s Roman Face
| [222] |
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Text Page showing Étienne’s Royal Greeks, from Novum Jesu
Christi D. N. Testamentum, Paris, 1550
| [222] |
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Christophe Plantin. From Engraving by Edme de Boulonois (c. 1550)
| [225] |
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Title Page of Plantin’s Biblia Polyglotta, Antwerp, 1568
| [228] |
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Page of Preface of Plantin’s Biblia Polyglotta, Antwerp, 1568
| [229] |
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Text Pages of Plantin’s Biblia Polyglotta, Antwerp, 1568
| [230] |
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Second Page of Plantin’s Biblia Polyglotta, Antwerp, 1568
| [232] |
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Device of Christophe Plantin
| [236] |
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Title Page of Elzevir’s Terence, Leyden, 1635
| [241] |
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Text Pages of Elzevir’s Terence, Leyden, 1635
| [242] |
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John Baskerville
| [244] |
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Title Page of Baskerville’s Virgil, Birmingham, 1757
| [247] |
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Text Page of Baskerville’s Virgil, Birmingham, 1757
| [249] |
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Engraving from Didot’s Racine, Paris, 1801. By Prud’hon
| [253] |
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Title Page of Didot’s Racine, Paris, 1801
| [253] |
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Opening Page of Didot’s Racine, Paris, 1801
| [255] |
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Text Page of Didot’s Racine, Paris, 1801
| [256] |
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Firmin Didot. From Engraving by Pierre Gustave Eugène Staal
(1817–1882)
| [256] |
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William Morris. From Portrait by G. F. Watts, R. A., in
the National Portrait Gallery, London. Painted in 1880
| [258] |
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart. From a Photograph at the British
Museum
| [260] |
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Text Page of Kelmscott Chaucer, 1896
| [262] |
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Title Page of Doves Bible, London, 1905
| [265] |
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Text Page of Doves Bible, London, 1905
| [267] |
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The Sala Michelangiolo, in the Laurenziana Library,
Florence
| [276] |
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Dott. Comm. Guido Biagi, in 1924
| [278] |
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Vestibule of the Laurenziana Library, Florence
| [280] |
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Miniature Page from the Biblia Amiatina, R. Lau. Bibl.
Cod. Amiatinus I
| [288] |
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Antonio Magliabecchi
| [293] |
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Library Slips used by George Eliot while working on Romola
in Magliabecchian Library, Florence
| [296] |