A History of the Decoration and
Illustration of Books in the
15th and 16th Centuries

By Alfred W. Pollard

Second Edition

London
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.

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First Edition, 1893
Second Edition, revised and corrected
May 1917

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Preface