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A BRIEF HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING FROM ITS INVENTION

by

JOSEPH CUNDALL

Author of 'Holbein and His Works' etc.

London Sampson Low, Marston, & Company Limited St. Dunstan's House Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. 1895

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

PAGE

On Pictures of Saints--The print of _The Virgin with the
Holy Child in her Lap_ in the Bibliothèque Royale de
Belgique--On the print of _St. Christopher_ in the Spencer
Library at Manchester--The _Annunciation_ and the _St.
Bridget_ of Sweden 1

CHAPTER II

On the Block Books of the Fifteenth Century--Biblia Pauperum;
Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis, &c. 11

CHAPTER III

The Block Books of the Fifteenth Century--Ars Moriendi--
_Temptacio Diaboli_--Canticum Canticorum, and others 20

CHAPTER IV

Block Book--Speculum Humanae Salvationis--_Casus
Luciferi_--The Mentz Psalter of 1459--Book of Fables--The
Cologne Bible--Nürnberg Chronicle--Breydenbach's
Travels 28

CHAPTER V

On Wood-Engraving in Italy in the Fifteenth Century--The
Venice _Kalendario_ of 1476--The _Triumph of Petrarch_--The
_Hypnerotomachia Poliphili_--Aldo Manuzio--Portrait
of Aldus 40

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CHAPTER VI

On Wood-Engraving in France in the Fifteenth Century--
Engraving on Metal Blocks--'Books of Hours'--Famous
French Publishers: Pierre Le Rouge, Simon Vostre,
Antoine Verard, Thielman Kerver, Guyot Marchant,
Philippe Pigouchet, Jean Dupré, and others 51

CHAPTER VII

Wood-Engraving in England in the Fifteenth Century--William
Caxton, _Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye_--_Dictes
and Sayings of Philosophers_--_Game and Playe of
the Chesse_, &c.--Wynkyn de Worde--Richard Pynson 61

CHAPTER VIII

Wood-Engraving in Germany in the Sixteenth Century--Albrecht
Dürer--_Coronation of the Virgin_--The Apocalypse--The
Little Passion--His Engravings on Copper--The
Triumphs of Maximilian--The _Triumphal Arch_--The
_Triumphal Car_--The _Triumphal Procession_ 69

CHAPTER IX

Hans Holbein--_Dance of Death_--Bible Cuts--Hans
Lützelburger--_Dance of Death Alphabet_--The Little
Masters--Altdorfer--Beham--Brosamer--Aldegrever--Cranach 81

CHAPTER X

Wood-Engraving in Italy and France in the Sixteenth
Century--Giuseppe Porta of Venice--Geoffroy Tory and
Robert Estienne of Paris--Borluyt's _Figures from the
New Testament_--Christophe Plantin of Antwerp 89

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CHAPTER XI

Wood-Engraving in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
in Italy and England--Printing in Chiaro-oscuro in
Venice--Printing in Colour in Germany--_Habiti Antichi
e Moderni_ by Vecellio--Wood-Engraving in England--Foxe's
_Acts and Monuments_--Holinshed's _Chronicles_--_A
Booke of Christian Prayers_--Dr. Cuningham's _Cosmographical
Glasse_--_Æsop's Fables_--The French engraver
Papillon 99

CHAPTER XII

Thomas Bewick and his Pupils--_Select Fables_--_History of
Quadrupeds_--_History of British Birds_--_Æsop's Fables_--
Prices at which these books were published--Death of
Bewick 108

CHAPTER XIII

Bewick's Successors--John Bewick (his Brother)--_Looking-glass
for the Mind_--_Goldsmith's Poems_--_Somerville's
Chase_--Robert Johnson--Charlton Nesbit--Robert Elliot
R. Bewick--_History of Fishes_--Luke Clennell--William
Harvey--George Bonner--W. H. Powis--John Jackson--Ebenezer
Landells--Robert Branston--F. W. Branston--John
Thompson--J. Orrin Smith--John and Mary Byfield--Samuel
Williams--W. T. Green--O. Jewitt--C. Gray--S.
Slader--J. Greenaway--W. J. Palmer--German Engravers--Modern
English Engravers 116

INDEX 129

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A BRIEF HISTORY

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WOOD-ENGRAVING

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