[2] Papillon, "Traité de la Gravure en Bois," 1766, vol. i., ch. 1.
[3] Pliny, "Hist. Nat.," xxxv., c. 2.
[4] "Materiali per servire alla Storia dell' Incisione," &c., p. 83 and following.
[5] That is the "Treatises on Latin Syntax" by Ælius Donatus, a grammarian of the fourth century. In the Middle Ages these treatises were much used in schools.
[6] Published by John Koelhoff under the name of "Cronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen," p. 31 and after.
[7] "Essai historique et critique sur l'Invention de l'Imprimerie." Lille, 1859.
[8] This, at any rate, is what we feel tempted to do as regards the "Biblia Pauperum," a book containing xylographic illustrations, whose date has been variously estimated, and which we are disposed to believe even older than the first edition of the "Speculum." Heinecken, as usual, claims for Germany the production of this precious collection, which Ottley, with more appearance of reason, regards as the work of an artist of the Low Countries, who worked about 1420. In this way Germany would only have the right to claim the plates added in the German editions published forty years later, and which are far less perfect in point of style and arrangement than those of the original edition.
[9] The Dutch word coster means churchwarden, or beadle.
[10] "Ideé générale d'une Collection d'Estampes, 1771," p. 305.
[11] "Discours Historique sur la Gravure." Paris, 1808.