LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| FROM | PAGE | |
| "Les Quinze Joies de Mariage" | [xii] | |
| The "Dialogus Creaturarum" | [xiii] | |
| A Venetian Chapbook | [xvii] | |
| The "Rappresentazione di un Miracolo del Corpo di Gesù" | [xviii] | |
| The "Rappresentazione di S. Cristina" | [xix] | |
| "La Nencia da Barberino" | [xxi] | |
| The "Storia di Ippolito Buondelmonti e Dianora Bardi" | [xxii] | |
| Ingold's "Guldin Spiel" | [xxiv] | |
| The Malermi Bible | [xxv] | |
| A French Book of Hours | [xxvii] | |
| FROM | BY | |
| "A Farm in Fairyland." | Laurence Housman | [xxx] |
| Grimm's "Household Stories." | Walter Crane | [5] |
| "Undine." | Heywood Sumner | [7] |
| "Keats' Poems." | R. Anning Bell | [9] |
| "Stories and Fairy Tales." | A. J. Gaskin | [11] |
| "The Field of Clover." | Laurence Housman | [20] and [21] |
| "Cupide and Psyches." | Charles Ricketts | [22] |
| "Daphnis and Chloe." | Charles Ricketts and C. H. Shannon | [23] |
| "The Centaur." | T. Sturge Moore | [25] |
| "Royal Edinburgh." | Sir George Reid | facing [35] |
| "The Warwickshire Avon." | Alfred Parsons | [37] |
| "The Cinque Ports." | William Hyde | [42] |
| "Italian Journeys." | Joseph Pennell | facing [45] |
| "The Holyhead Road." | C. G. Harper | [49] |
| "The Formal Garden." | F. Inigo Thomas | [51] |
| "The Natural History of Selborne." | E. H. New | [53] |
| "British Deer and their Horns." | J. G. Millais | [55] |
| "Death and the Ploughman's Wife." | William Strang | [61] |
| "The Bride of Lammermoor." | Fred Pegram | [71] |
| "Shirley." | F. H. Townsend | [73] |
| "The Heart of Midlothian." | Claude A. Shepperson | [75] |
| "The School for Scandal." | E. J. Sullivan | [78] |
| "The Ballad of Beau Brocade." | Hugh Thomson | [82] |
| "The Essays of Elia." | C. E. Brock | [85] |
| "The Talk of the Town." | Sir Harry Furniss | [89] |
| "Hermy." | Lewis Baumer | [100] |
| "To tell the King the Sky is falling." | Alice B. Woodward | [105] |
| "Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm." | Arthur Rackham | [109] |
| "Indian Fairy Tales." | J. D. Batten | [111] |
| "The Pink Fairy Book." | H. J. Ford | [113] |
| "Fairy Tales by Q." | H. R. Millar | [115] |
INTRODUCTION.
SOME PRESENT-DAY LESSONS FROM OLD WOODCUTS.
By Alfred W. Pollard.
SOME explanation seems needed for the intrusion of a talk about the woodcuts of the fifteenth century into a book dealing with the work of the illustrators of our own day, and the explanation, though no doubt discreditable, is simple enough. It was to a mere bibliographer that the idea occurred that lists of contemporary illustrated books, with estimates of the work found in them, might form a useful record of the state of English book-illustration at the end of a century in which for the first time (if we stretch the century a little so as to include Bewick) it had competed on equal terms with the work of foreign artists. Fortunately the bibliographer's scanty leisure was already heavily mortgaged, and so the idea was transferred to a special student of the subject, much better equipped for the task. But partly for the pleasure of keeping a finger in an interesting pie, partly because there was a fine hobby-horse waiting to be mounted, the bibliographer bargained that he should be allowed to write an introduction in which his hobby should have free play, and the reader, who has got a much better book than he was intended to have, must acquiesce in this meddling, or resort to his natural rights and skip.