Chapter IV

WOOD ENGRAVING IN CONNEXION WITH THE PRESS, 164-229.

Initial letter C, from Faust and Scheffer’s Psalter 164
Apes, from a book of Fables printed at Bamberg by Albert
Pfister, 1461 171
Heads, from an edition of the Poor Preachers’ Bible, printed
by Pfister 177
Christ and his Disciples, from the same 177
Joseph making himself known to his Brethren, from the same 178
The Prodigal Son’s return, from the same 178
The Creation of Animals, from Meditationes Joannis de
Turrecremata, printed at Rome, 1467 185
A bomb-shell and a man shooting from a kind of hand-gun,
from Valturius de Re Militari, printed at Verona, 1472 188
A man shooting from a cross-bow, from the same 189
The Knight, from Caxton’s Book of Chess, about 1476 193
The Bishop’s pawn, from the same 194
Two figures-- Music, from Caxton’s Mirrour of the World,
1480 196
Frontispiece to Breydenbach’s Travels, printed at Mentz,
1486 207
Syrian Christians, from the same 209
Old Woman with a basket of eggs on her head, from the Hortus
Sanitatis, printed at Mentz, 1491 211
Head of Paris, from the book usually called the Nuremberg
Chronicle, printed at Nuremberg, 1493 212
Creation of Eve, from the same 215
The same subject from the Poor Preachers’ Bible 216
The difficult Labour of Alcmena, from an Italian translation
of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, 1497 217
Mars, Venus, and Mercury, from Poliphili Hypnerotomachia,
printed at Venice, 1499 221
Cupid brought by Mercury before Jove, from the same 222
Cupid and his Victims, from the same 222
Bacchus, from the same 223
Cupid, from the same 224
A Vase, from the same 224
Cat and Mouse, from a supposed old wood-cut printed in
Derschau’s Collection, 1808-1816 226
Man in armour on horseback, from a wood-cut, formerly used
by Mr. George Angus of Newcastle 228
Tail-piece-- the press of Jodocus Badius Ascensianus, from
the title-page of a book printed by him about 1498 229