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Chapter XVI: Modern Fine Printing (2)

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Deventer, early printing at, 72, 74

d'Ewes, Sir Simeon, fate of his manuscripts, 4

_Dialogus Creaturum_, woodcuts in, 119

_Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophers_, Caxton's, 207

Didot, family of printers at Paris, 301

Digby, Sir Kenelm Digby, benefactions to libraries, 5

Dinckmut, Conrad, illustrated books, 106 _sq._

Doesborg, Jan van, English books printed by, 230

Dolet, Etienne, printer at Lyon, 174

Donatus, Aelius, early editions of his _De octo partibus orationis_,
35, 36, 46, 51, 65

Douay, English Catholic books printed at, 232

Dorat, C. J., _Les Baisers_, 293

Doves Press, 306

Downes, Thomas, English bookseller, patentee for Irish printing, 243

Drach, Peter, Speier printer, 63

Drayton, Michael, _Polyolbion_, 285

Dublin, early printing at, 242 _sq._

Du Bosc, Claude, engraver, 294

Dudley, Earl of Leicester, encourages Oxford printing, 235

Duff, E. G., on woodcuts in 1471 Bible, 125 note; on Berthelet and
Pynson, 213; on free trade in books, 223; on a book printed at St.
Albans, 225

Du Guernier, Louis, engraver, 294

Du Guesclin, Bertrand, woodcut of, 146

Du Moulin, Conrad, buys a _De Salute Corporis_, 39

Dupre, Jean, fine printer at Paris, 71; his illustrated books, 143
_sqq._, 160; his _Horae_, 151 _sq._

Durer, Albrecht, book-illustrations by, 181 _sq._, 188

Dutch printing and book-illustration. _See_ Holland

Duranti, Gulielmus, _Rationale diuinorum officiorum_, 1459 edition,
56

Dyson, Humphrey, book-collector, 3

Edinburgh printing, 239-42

Editions, number of copies in early, 21

Edward VI, woodcut of, 260

Egenolph, Christian, illustrated books, 183, 187

Eichstatt service-books, engravings in, 270

Eisen, C., illustrator, 291 _sqq._

Eliot, John, books by, printed at Cambridge, Mass., 246

Elizabeth, Queen, portraits of, 264, 265, 281 _sq._; her "Prayer
Book," 264

Elston Press, 308

Elstracke, Renold, engraver, 285 _sq._, 288

Elzevir, family of printers, 177 _sqq._

Emblem books, 275, 280

Emden, Puritan books printed at, 232

England, printing in, 76 _sq._, 204-28, 233-9, 302-8

English books printed abroad, 228-32

English engraved illustrations, 280-9, 293-6

English woodcut illustrations, 250-66

Engraved illustrations, 267-96

_Epistole ed Evangelii_, illustrated Florentine ed., 136, 139

Eragny Press, 308

Erasmus, Desiderius, his relations with Froben, 170, 191

Erven, G. van der, printer at Emden, 232

E. S., the Master, _Ars moriendi_ engravings by, 25

Essling, Prince d', his _Livres a figures venitiens_ quoted, 125
note, 127, 130 _sq._

Estienne, family of scholar-printers, 171 _sqq._

Eton, printing at, 234

Eustace, Guil., his _Horae_, 156

Exeter, early printing at, 237

F, woodcuts signed, at Venice, 128; at Paris, 200

Fabyan's _Chronicle_, Pynson's ed., 257

Faithorne, W., engraver, 289

Faques or Fawkes, Richard, London printer, 215

Faques, William, Royal Printer, 214

Fell, Bishop, buys Dutch types for Oxford, 298

Ferrara, early printing at, 68, 70; book-illustrations, 140

Fichet, Guillaume, letter on invention of printing, 33, 44; invites
printers to the Sorbonne, 70

Field, Richard, London printer, 221

_Fifteen Oes_, Caxton's edition, 252

First books printed in different countries and towns, their interest,
78 _sq._

Fisher, Bishop, woodcuts to his funeral sermons, 254

Florence, early printing, 67, 70, book-illustration at, 133-9, 267;
Venetian imitation of Florentine style, 196

Florio, John, engraved portrait, 287

Foliation, or leaf-numbers, first used by ther Hoernen, 62

Foster, John, first printer at Boston, Mass., 247

Fouler, John, English printer at Antwerp and Louvain, 232

Foulis, Robert and Andrew, Glasgow printers, 298

Foxe, John, his _Actes and Monuments_, or _Book of Martyrs_, 219, 262

France, printing in, 70-2, 170-5, 224; book-illustration, 143-61,
197-202, 289-93

Franciscus, Magister, Schoeffer's corrector, 51

Francke (or Franckton), John, Dublin printer, 243

Frankfort am Main, book-illustration at, 184, 193, 278 _sqq._

Franklin, Benjamin, printer at Philadelphia, 248

Freez (or Wandsforth), Gerard, York printer, 225

Freiburger, Gering and Crantz, first Paris printers, 70 _sq._

Frezzi, Bishop, _Quatriregio_, illustrated editions, 139

Froben, Johann, scholarly printer at Basel, 170; his
book-decorations, 191

Front, the Mind of the, 287

Froschauer, Christopher, Zurich printer, his English books, 231 _sq._

Fust, Johann, dealings with Gutenberg, 46 _sqq._; books printed by,
53 _sq._, 86

Gafori, Francesco, illustrations to his music-books, 141, 196

Gaguin, Robert, illustrations to his chronicles, 198

_Game and Pley of the Chesse_, 206

Garamond, Claude, French Royal Greek types cut by, 172

_Garland of Rachel_, 303

Garrick, David, his collection of plays, 5

Geiler, Johann, of Kaisersberg, illustrations to his books, 185, 190

Geminus, Thomas, engraved work, 281

Geneva, English books printed at, 232

Gerard, Pierre, first printer at Abbeville, 145

Germany, printing in, 44-64, 169 _sq._, 224; book-illustration,
102-17, 181-94

Giunta, family of printers at Florence and Venice, 128, 168 _sq._,
195

Giustiniano, Lorenzo, portrait of, 130

Glasgow, fine printing at, 298

Glover, Rev. Joseph, benefactor of Harvard College, 244

Goes, Hugo, York printer, 225

Goeschen, Georg Joachim, printer at Leipzig, 301

_Golden Legend_, Caxton's editions, 207, 251

Gothic type, 88, 90 _sq._

Gouda, printing and illustration, 72, 119, 122

Graf, Urs, book-decorations by, 191

Grafton, Richard, Royal Printer, 217, 259; his _Chronicle_, 264

Gravelot, H., engraver at Paris, 291 _sqq._, and London, 295

Greek printing in Italy, 167, 301; in France, 171 _sqq._; in Spain,
176; in England, 176, 218, 226, 234, 300, 307

Green, Bartholomew, printer at Boston, Mass., 247 _sq._

-- Samuel, printer at Cambridge, Mass., 245 _sqq._

Gregorii, Giov. and Greg. dei, printers at Venice, 69, 195

Grenewych by Conrade Freeman, spurious imprint, 232

Grenville, Thomas, character of his collection, 6

Grien, Hans Baldung, illustrator, 190

Grignion, Charles, engraver, 296

Gringore, Pierre, _Chasteau de Labeur_, 150 _sq._; English editions,
230 _sq._, 254

Grolier, Jean, example as a book-buyer, 2; supports Aldus, 168

Gruninger, Johann, of Strassburg, illustrated books, 111 _sq._

Gryphius, Sebastian, Lyon printer, 173

Gutenberg, Johann, claims to the invention of printing, 33-6, 44
_sqq._; books he may have printed, 51 _sq._

Haarlem, its claims to be the birthplace of printing, 37 _sqq._, 72

Hakluyt, Richard, _Voyages_, 278

Hamman, Johann. _See_ Herzog

Han, Ulrich, early printer at Rome, 65, 67 _sq._, types, 90; printed
the first Italian illustrated book, 123

Hardouyn, Germain and Gilles, their _Horae_, 156

Harington, Sir John, on the plates in his _Orlando Furioso_, 283

Harrison, Stephen, _Archs of Triumph_, 284

Hartlieb, Johann, block-book of _Die Kunst Chiromantia_, 28

Harvard College, printing at, 244 _sq._

Haydock, Richard, engraver, 284

Hayman, Francis, illustrator, 296

Heber, Richard, character of his collection, 6

Hempstead (Essex), secret printing at, 228

Henry V, woodcut of Lydgate offering book to, 257

Henry VII, books decorated by Verard for, 148; woodcut of his
funeral, 254

Henry VIII "protects" English book-trade, 222, 234

_Heroologia_ engravings, 285

Hertfort or Herford, John, printer at St. Albans and London, 224
_sq._

Herzog, Johann, prints Sarum Missal at Venice, 229

Hessels, Dr., his theories on the invention of printing, 38 _sqq._

Heynlyn, Jean, superintends first Paris press, 70

Heywood, Thomas, woodcut of, 260; engravings to his _Hierarchie of
the Blessed Angels_, 286

Higman, Nicolas, _Horae_, 156

Hind, A. M., quoted, 284, 290

_Hobby-Horse_, experiments in printing in, 304

Hogarth, William, book-illustrations, 295 _sq._

Hogenberg, Franciscus and Remigius, engravers, 281 _sq._

Holbein, Ambrosius, book-decorations, 191

-- Hans, book-decorations and illustrations, 191 _sq._, 259 _sq._

Hole, William, engraver, 285, 287

Holinshed, Raphael, _Chronicle_, 265

Holland, claims to the invention of printing, 32-43; printing in, 72;
book-illustrations, 119-22

Holland, H., print-seller, 285

Hollar, Wenceslaus, engraver, 287

Homer, the Florentine, 167; in French, 201; Chapman's, 287; Ogilby's
Odyssey, 287; Proctor's, 307

Hondius, Jodocus, engraver, 283 _sq._

Hopyl, Wolfgang, Missals by, 198, 229

_Horace_, Pine's ed., 295 _sq._, 300; Foulis, 298

_Horae_, Paris editions, 151-7, 264; Plantin's, 275

Hornby, C. St. John, private press, 88, 306

Hroswitha, illustrations to her Comedies, 182

Hunte, Thomas, Oxford stationer, partner in Rood's press, 76, 209

Hurning, Hans. _See_ Walther, F., and Hans Hurning

Hurus, Paul, illustrated books, 162

Huss, Martin, illustrated books, 158

Huvin, Jean, probable partner (I. H.) of Jul. Notary, 214

Hylton, Walter, _Scala perfectionis_, De Worde's ed., 253

_Hypnerotomachia Poliphili_, 90, 131 _sq._; French version of, 201

i, ia., woodcuts signed, 128

I.D., woodcut signed, 159

_Imprese_, engravings of, 277

Incipits of books, quoted, 93

Incunabula, study of, 12 _sq._; the word misleading, 77; points of,
78 _sq._

Indulgences, printed at Mainz, 47

Ipswich, printing at, 226

Ireland, printing in, 242 _sq._

Italic type, 91, 218

Italy, printing in, 65-70, 165-9, 224; book-illustration in, 123-42

James I, works and portrait, 288

Janot, Denis, printer of French illustrated books, 200

Jenson, Nicolas, printer at Venice, 67, 85

Jesuit press (1580), 228

Jewel, Bishop, books against, printed at Antwerp and Louvain, 232

Johnes, Thomas, private press, 238

Johnson, Marmaduke, printer at Cambridge, Mass., 246

Junius, Hadrianus, his story of Coster, 37 _sq._

Justinian, in Council, metal-cut of, 198

Kearney, William, Dublin printer, 243

Kefer, or Keffer, Heinrich, servant of Gutenberg, 47, 63

Keimer, Samuel, printer at Philadelphia, 248

Keith, George, his _Appeal from the Twenty-eight Judges_, 248

Kerver, Thielmann, _Horae_, 156

Ketham, Johannes, _Fascicolo di Medicina_, illustrated, 129

Kipling, R., contribution to a school magazine, 8

Knoblochtzer, H., Strassburg printer, 60; illustrated books, 111

Kobel, Jakob, printer at Oppenheim, 193

Koberger, Anton, largest Nuremberg printer, 63; illustrated books,
108, 183

Koelhoff, Johann, father and son, printers at Cologne, 113

Kyngston, Felix, English bookseller, patentee for Irish printing, 243

Kyrforth, Samuel, Oxford printer, 224

Laer, John, of Siberch. _See_ Siberch

La Fontaine, Jean, illustrated editions of his _Fables_ and _Contes_,
290 _sq._

Laing, David, on the Bruges _Des cas des nobles hommes_, 271

La Marche, Olivier de, illustrations to his _Chevalier Delibere_,
122, 147, 149, 263

Lambeth Palace, printing at, 234

Lant, Thomas, engraver, 282

La Rochelle, Marprelate tract printed at, 228

Laud, Archbishop, benefactions to libraries, 5

Lauer, Georg, early printer at Rome, 68

Le Bey, Denis, his Emblems, 280

Leeu, Gerard, printer at Gouda and Antwerp, 72; colophon recording
his death quoted, 81; sells cuts to Koelhoff, 113, 120; his
illustrated books, 119 _sq._; English books printed by, 229 _sq._

Legate, John, Cambridge printer, 235

Legge, Cantrell, Cambridge printer, 235

Le Huen, Nicole, his adaptation of _Breidenbach_, 161, 270

Leipzig printing, 64, 169; book-illustrations, 116

Lekpreuit, Robert, Scottish printer, 241

Lemberger, Georg, bookwork at Wittenberg, 190

Le Rouge, Pierre, prints for Verard, 150

Leroy, Guil., first printer at Lyon, 71; illustrated books, 158 _sq._

Le Signerre, Guil., illustrated books, 141

Le Talleur, Guil., printer at Rouen, prints for Pynson, 211 _sq._

Lettou, John, first printer in the City of London, 77, 210, 252

Leyden, printing at, 176, 177

Lignamine, Joh. Phil. de, on the invention of printing, 34; his own
press, 68

Lirer, Thomas, _Chronik_, illustrated ed., 107

Lisa, Gerard, first printer at Treviso, 67 _sq._, 70

Locatellus, Bonetus, Venice printer, 69

Locker-Lampson, F., his copy of Blake's _Songs of Innocence and
Experience_, 11

London, printing in the City of, 77

Longus, _Daphnis et Chloe_, 290

Louvain, early printing at, 73; book-illustration, 122; English
books, 232

Lownes, Matthew, English bookseller, patentee for Irish printing, 243

Lubeck early printing, 64; book-illustration at, 113 _sq._

Lucrece, Berthelet's device of, 259

Lutzelburger, Hans, Holbein's wood-cutter, 192

Luyken, Jan and Casper, engravers, 289

Lydgate, John, woodcut of, 257. For his _Falles of Pryncis_, see
Boccaccio, _De Casibus_

Lyne, John, engraver, 282

Lyon, printing at, 71, 171, 173 _sq._; illustration, 157-61, 202

Macfarlane, John, monograph on Antoine Verard, 147

Machlinia, William, printer at London, 77, 210, 252

Madan, Falconer, on Oxford printing, 236

Magdeburg early printing, 64

Mainz, printing as a practical art invented at, 44-58;
book-illustration, 114 _sq._

Malborow in the land of Hesse, doubtful imprint, 231

Malermi Bible. _See_ Bible, Italian

Malone, E., bequeaths books to the Bodleian, 5

Mansion, Colard, Bruges printer, 72, 122, 205 _sq._, 271 _sq._

Manutius, Aldus, his work, 166-8; large roman type, 90; italic
octavos, 91, 167, 196; _Hypnerotomachia_, 131 _sq._; Lyonnese
counterfeits of his octavos, 173

-- -- the younger, 168

-- Paulus, 168

Marchant, Gui., illustrated books, 145

Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, Caxton's patron, 204, 272

-- Duchess of Richmond, woodcut of her funeral, 255

Margins, right proportions, 97

Marprelate press, 228

Marsh, Archbishop, library founded by, 4-5

Marshall, William, engraver, 286 _sqq._

Mary, Princess, daughter of Henry VII, woodcut of her reception of
Spanish Embassy, 257

Master and Pupil, method of depicting, 135 and note

Maximilian, the Emperor, illustrated books in his honour, 182 _sq._,
185 _sq._, 188 _sq._

Maynyal, George, prints service-books for Caxton, 229

Mentelin, Johann, first printer at Strassburg, 60; manuscript
colophon of, 91 _sq._

Merrymount Press, Boston (Mass.), 308

Middelburg, English books printed at, 232

Milan early printing, 68 _sq._; book-illustration, 125, 141

Miller, W. H., character of his collection, 6

Millet, Jacques, illustrations to his _Destruction de Troye la
Grant_, 144, 158, 198

Milton, John, portrait by Marshall, 288

_Mirabilia Romae_, block-book, 28

Misprinted dates at Barcelona, 75; at Oxford, 209

Mitchell, John. _See_ Mychell

Moliere, Francois, illustrations to, 290, 293

Molner, Theodoricus, confused with Theod. Rood, 209

Mondovi, good roman type, 89

Montanus, Arias, relations with Plantin, 275 _sq._

Monte Regio, Johannes de. _See_ Muller

Montesquieu, _Le Temple de Gnide_, 290, 293

Moore, Bishop, fate of his books, 4

Moreau, French illustrator, 292

Morris, William, admired Subiaco type, 88; on the double page as the
unit in a book, 98; on the illustrator of Caoursin, 108; his set of
proofs of Richel's _Spiegel_, 109 note; his decorative bookwork, 126;
the Kelmscott press, 304 _sq._

Moxon, Joseph, his _Mechanick Exercises_, 298

Muller, Johann, his Calendars, 27, 125; his work as a printer, 108

Musurus, Marcus, Aldus copies his Greek script, 167

Mutius Scaevola, border representing, 256

Mychell (or Mitchell), John, printer at Canterbury and London, 227

Myllar, Andrew, first Scottish printer, 239

Mylner, Ursyn, York printer, 225

N, woodcuts signed, 128

Naples early printing, 70; book-illustration, 124

Negker, Andrea and Jost de, wood-cutters, 188

Neobar, Conrad, printer of Greek, 172

Netherlands. _See_ Holland; Belgium

_Neuf Preux_, Les, French block-book, 29

Neumeister, Johann, printer at Foligno, Mainz, Albi, etc., 114

Newcastle, printing at, 236 _sq._; New Testament, Tyndale's, 231;
Eliot's, 246

Niclas, Hendrik, his books printed at Amsterdam, 232

Nitschewitz, Hermann, _Psalterium B.M.V._, 117

Norwich, Dutch books printed at, 233; other printing at, 238

Notary, Julyan, early printer at London, 77, 213 _sq._, 222

Nuremberg, printing at, 63, 169; book-illustration at, 108, 116
_sq._, 181-4, 193

_Nuremberg Chronicle. See_ Schedel

_Nut-Brown Maid_, the earliest text in Arnold's _Chronicle_, 230

Ogilby, John, illustrated books, 289

O'Kearney, John, Irish printing by, 243

_Opera nova contemplativa_, Venetian block-book, 20 _sq._, 29

Oppenheim, book-decoration at, 193

Ortuin and Schenck, printers of _Roman de la Rose_, 160

Os, Pieter van, early printer at Zwolle, 72

Ostendorfer, Michael, illustrations by, 190

Oswen, John, printer at Ipswich and Worcester, 229 _sq._

Overton, John, printer (?) at Ipswich, 226

Ovid, illustrations to his _Metamorphoses_, 292

Oxford, printing at, 76, 209, 224, 234 _sqq._, 252, 302 _sq._

Pacini, Piero and Bernardo, publishers of illustrated books at
Florence, 139

Paderborn, Johann. _See_ Westphalia, John of

Palmart, Lambert, first printer in Spain, 75, 78, 89

Paper, made at Hertford, 212; Tottell seeks a monopoly for making,
220

Paris, printing in, 70 _sqq._, 171 _sqq._; book-illustration, 143-56,
197-201, 289-93

Parker, Archbishop, his efforts to rescue old books, 2; patron of
John Day, 219; and of Bynneman, 220; his _De Antiquitate Brit. Eccl._
perhaps printed at Lambeth, 219, 234; engraved portrait, 282

Parma, Baskerville's press at, 300

Passe family, engravers, 286, 288

_Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi_, Venetian block-book, 28, 123

Paulirinus, Paulinus, on the word _ciripagus_, 43

Pavia, book-illustration at, 141

Peartree, Montagu, article on possible portrait of Caxton, 273

Pepwell, Henry, London printer, 216

Pepys, S., bequest of his books, 5

Petrarca, F., illustrated editions of his _Trionfi_, 127, 139

Petri, Johann, early printer at Florence, 67

Pfister, Albrecht, printer of illustrated books at Bamberg, 19, 32,
51, 59

Philadelphia, first printing at, 247

Philippe, Regent of France, engraved illustrations to Longus, 290

Phillipps, Sir Thomas, private printing by, 239

Pigouchet, Philippe, prints _Le Chasteau de Labeur_, 150; his
_Horae_, 154

Pinder, Ulrich, private press at Nuremberg, 184

Pine, John, engraver, 294 _sqq._

Plantin, Christopher, printer at Antwerp, 175 _sq._; woodcut
illustration, 202 _sq._; engraved, 274 _sqq._

Plateanus, Theodoricus (Dirick van der Straten), printer at Wesel,
226

Plates, troubles arising from in books, 267

Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm, book-illustrations by, 116

Poitiers, early printing at, 72

Polidori, Gaetano, his private press, 239

Pope, erasure of the word, 260

Popish apparel, Puritan tracts against, 232

"Poppy-printer" of Lubeck, 114

Porro, Girolamo, engraves plates for _Orlando Furioso_, 277, 283

Powell, Humphrey, English printer in Dublin, 242

Printing, changes in the primacy of, 16, 169, 170, 177; invention of,
32-58; early progress of, in various countries, 59-82; its technical
development, 83-99; in the sixteenth century, 165-79; in England,
204-23; in the provinces of England, 224-8, 233-8; on the Continent
for the English market, 229-33; private, 238 _sq._; in Scotland, 239
_sqq._; in Ireland, 242 _sq._; in the English colonies in America,
243 _sqq._

Private presses in England, 238 _sq._, 303 _sqq._

Proctor, Robert, found beauty in all incunabula, 10, 39; classification
of them, 12; Greek type, 176, 307

Provincial printing in England, 9, 76, 208 _sq._, 224-7, 234-8

Pruss, Johann, of Strassburg, illustrated books, 111, 162

Psalms, the New England version of the, 244 _sq._

Psalter, Latin, of 1457, 54, 83; of 1459, 55; cost of writing and
illuminating a manuscript, 84

Ptolemy, _Cosmographia_ (or _Geographia_), illustrated editions of,
66, 107

Pynson, R., number of copies in his editions, 21; work as a printer,
211, 212 _sq._, 222; book-illustrations, 255-9

Quarles, Francis, _Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man_, 287

Quentell, Heinrich, of Cologne, his illustrated books, 113; his Bible
cuts copied, 112, 114, 126, 128

Quinterniones, a name for manuscripts, 94

Quire, origin of the word, 94

Quiring in old books, 94 _sqq._; collection by, 96 _sq._

R-printer, the, of Strassburg, 60

_Rappresentazioni_, illustrated Florentine editions, 138

Rarity, effect on value of books, 7 _sq._

Rastell, John, lawyer-printer, 215, 222, 258

-- William, printed English plays, 215

Ratdolt, Erhard, early printer at Venice, 69; titlepage to his
Calendar, 93; his decorative work at Venice, 125 _sq._; at Augsburg,
106; colour-printing by, 129

Rawlinson, Richard, gives manuscripts to the Bodleian, 5

Raynold, Thomas, his ed. of the _Birth of Mankind_, 280

_Recuyell of the Histories of Troye_, 206, 254; engraving in
Chatsworth copy of Caxton's, 272

Redman, Robert, Pynson's successor, 216, 222

Red printing, difficulty of, 86, 228 _sq._; colophons in, 92

Regiomontanus. _See_ Muller

Reinhard, Johann. _See_ Gruninger

Retza, Fran. de, block-book of his _Defensorium_, 27

Reuwich, Erhard, illustrator of Breidenbach's _Peregrinatio_, 108,
115 _sq._

Reyser, Georg, first Wurzburg printer, 64, 269 _sq._

-- Michel, first Eichstatt printer, 64, 269 _sq._

Rheims, English Catholic books printed at, 232

Richard III, Statute permitting free importation of books into
England, 209, 222

Richard, Thomas, printer at Tavistock, 226

Richel, Bernhard, early printer at Basel, his illustrated books, 109,
158

Ricketts, Charles, the Vale Press books, 307

Rodericus Zamorensis, illustrated editions of his _Speculum Humanae
Vitae_, 104, 159, 162

Rodlich, Hieronymus, his illustrated books, 193

Rogers, Bruce, fine printer, 308

-- William, engraver, 284, 287

Rolewinck, Werner, all his books printed by ther Hoernen, 62; Venice
editions of his _Fasciculus Temporum_, 126; Seville ed., 161

Roman de la Rose, early editions of, 160

Roman type, 88-90

Rome, printing at, 65, 167; book-illustration at, 123, 268, 273, 276

Rome under the Castle of St. Angelo, spurious imprint, 233

Rood, Theodoricus, printer at Oxford, 76

Ross, John, Edinburgh printer, 242

Rouen early printing, 72, 146; English books, 225, 229

Ruppel, Berthold, of Hanau, Basel printer, 47, 60

Ruscelli, Jerononimo, his _Imprese_, 277

Rusch, Adolf, the R-printer, 60; roman type used by, 88

Rylands, W. H., engraver, 296

Ryther, Augustine, engraver, 282

Saint Albans, printing at, 76, 208, 224 _sq._, 253

Saint Andrews, printing at, 241

Saint Omer, English Catholic books printed at, 232

Saluzzo, book-illustration at, 141

Sanctis, Hieronymus de, wood-cutter and printer at Venice, 127

Sanderson, Cobden, fine printing by, 306

Sandys, George, _Relation of a Journey_, 285

Santritter, Johann, illustrator and printer at Venice, 127

Saragossa, early printing at, 75; illustration, 162

Sarum service-books mostly printed abroad, 229; their importation
into Scotland forbidden, 240

Savonarola, Girolamo, illustrated editions of his tracts, 133 _sq._,
137

Savile, Sir Henry, his press at Eton, 234

Saxton, Christopher, maps by, 282

Sayle, C., his catalogue of English books in Cambridge University
Library, 233

Schatzbehalter. _See_ Stephan

Schaufelein, Hans Leonhard, book-illustrations by, 184, 188 _sq._

Schedel, Hartmann, his _Liber Chronicarum_, 117

Schilders, Richard, English books printed by, 232 _sq._

Schoeffer, Johann, printer at Mainz, 58, 169

-- Peter, a witness on the side of Fust, 47; his share in the
invention of printing, 50 _sq._; books printed by him, 53-8; his
method of printing, 81-6, 95; his type, 90

Schon, Erhard, illustrations by, 183

Schreiber, W., his _Manuel de l'Amateur_, quoted, 24, 100 note, 114;
his block-books, 31

Schwabacher type, 90

Scolar, Johannes, printer at Oxford, 224; and at Abingdon, 226

Scoloker, Anthony, printer at Ipswich and London, 226

Scot, John, Scottish printer, 240 _sq._

Scotland, printing in, 239-42

Secret printing in Elizabeth's reign, 228

Segar, Sir W., _Honour, Military and Civil_, 284

Selden, W., his books go to the Bodleian, 5

Sensenschmidt, Johann, first printer at Nuremberg, 63; his
illustrated books, 108

Sessa, family of printers, illustrated books, 196

Seville, early printing at, 75; illustration, 161, 163

Shakespeare, First Folio, 8; illustrations to, 294 _sqq._

Shrewsbury, printing at, 237 _sq._

Siberch, John Laer of, first Cambridge printer, 225

_Sibyllenbuch_, early Mainz fragment of, 46

Sidney, Sir Philip, title-border to 1598 ed. of his _Arcadia_, 266;
engraving of his funeral, 282

Siemen, illustrated books published at, 193

Signatures of artists or wood-cutters in Italian books, 128, 194; in
German books, 194; in French books, 157, 159

Signatures (typographic), first used by Joh. Koelhoff, 62; their
origin, 94; example of collation by, 96

Silber, Eucharius, printer at Rome, 169

Simon, "das susses kind," woodcuts of his history, 103, 108

Small books, 214; stages in their popularity, 166, 173, 178

Smith, Richard, book-collector, 3

Solempne, Antony de, Dutch printer at Norwich, 233

Sorbonne, first Paris press at the, 70; roman type used at, 89;
persecution of printers by its theologians, 174

Sorg, Anton, of Augsburg, illustrated books, 105

Spaces left blank for headings and capitals, 85; for illustrations,
143

Spain, early printing in, 74-6, 176 _sq._, 224; book-illustration,
161-4

Spanish Armada, engravings of, 282

_Speculum Humanae Saluationis_ partly block-printed, 26, 39; fate of
the blocks, 40, 118; Augsburg ed. of, 103; Basel ed. of (in German),
109, 150; French ed. at Lyons, 158

_Speculum Humanae Vitae. See_ Rodericus Zamorensis

_Speculum Vitae Christi_, Caxton's edition, 252 _sq._

Speier, early printing at, 63

-- Johann of, first printer at Venice, 66 sq., 89

-- Wendelin of, successor of Johann, 67, 89

Spenser, Edmund, woodcuts to his _Shepheardes Calender_, 265

Spindeler, Nic., illustrated books, 162 _sq._

Spoerer, Hans, block-books printed by, 25

Springinklee, Hans, illustrator, 183, 188

Stagninus, Bernardinus, his illustrated service-books, 195

Stanheim, Melchior, arbitrator on book-illustrating, 63, 103

Stationers' Company, 221 _sq._, 227, 233 _sq._

Steele, Robert, on English books printed abroad, 233

Stephan, P., _Schatzbehalter_, 116

Steyner, Hans, illustrated books by, 185, 187

Stillingfleet, Archbishop, fate of his library, 4

Stoffler, Hans, mathematical works by, curiously decorated, 189

Story, John, Edinburgh printer, 240

Strassburg, printing at, 59 _sq._, 169; book-illustration at, 112
_sqq._, 187, 190 _sq._

Straten, Dirick van der. _See_ Plateanus

Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's press at, 238

Stuchs, G., Nuremberg printer, 63

Stule, Karolus, Edinburgh publisher, 240

Sturt, John, engraver, 294 _sq._

Subiaco, books printed at, 65

Sweynheym and Pannartz, number of copies in their editions, 21 note,
66; early reference to, 34; books printed by, 65 _sq._; their types,
88

-- Conrad, engraves maps for 1478 Ptolemy, 66, 268

Tacuinus, Joannes, Venice printer, 69

Tate, John, papermaker, 212

Taverner, John, London stationer, 222

Tavistock, printing at, 226

Terence, illustrated editions of, 107, 112, 131, 150, 160, 163, 213

Theramo, Jacobus de, illustrated editions of his _Belial_, 121

Ther Hoernen, Arnold, second Cologne printer, 62

Thomas, Thomas, Cambridge printer, 235

Thomas a Becket, erasure of the service for, 260

Tillier, Thomas, Chester printer, 237

Tin, types made of, 21 note

Titlepage, early examples of, 62, 93, 210

Tortosa early printing, 75

Tory, Geoffroi, printer at Paris, 173; his _Horae_, 156 _sq._, 199

Tottell, Richard, London printer, 219

Tournes, Jean de, father and son, printers at Lyon, 174

Traut, Wolfgang, illustrator, 182, 188

Trechsel family of printers at Lyon, 160, 171, 174, 192 _sq._

Treviso, early printing at, 67 _sq._, 70

Tuberinus, his account of the death of "das susses kind Simon," 103,
108

Tubingen, book-decoration at, 189

Turberville, George, _Booke of Faulconrie_, 265

Turrecremata, Cardinal, illustrated editions of his _Meditationes_,
114, 123

Tyndale, W., editions of his New Testament, 231

Types, characteristics of, in early books, 86 _sq._

Ugo (VGO), woodcuts signed, 194

Ulm early printing, 63 _sq._; illustrated books, 106 _sqq._

Ungut and Polonus, illustrated books of, 163

United States of America, colonial printing in, 243-9; modern fine
printing, 308

Updike, Berkeley, fine printer, 308

Usher, Archbishop, fate of his library, 4

Utrecht, "Costeriana" attributed to, 40, 72

Utterson, E. V., private printing by, 239

Valdarfer, Christopher, printer at Venice and Milan, 67

Valentia, early printing at, 74 _sq._; illustration, 162

Valturius, R., _De re militari_, Verona editions of, 123 _sq._;
French version of, 200

Van der Gucht, Michael, engraver, 294

Vautrollier, Thomas, printer at London and Edinburgh, 221, 242

Vavassore, Giovanni Andrea, block-printed _Opera nova Contemplativa_
by, 21; woodcuts signed z.a., etc., by, 194 _sq._

Veldener, Jan, early printer at Louvain, Kuilenburg and Utrecht, 40,
73, 118, 119, 205

Venice early printing, 66 _sq._; book-illustration, 125-32, 194-7,
277

Verard, Antoine, publisher at Paris, 147-50; his _Horae_, 151 _sq._;
his English books, 230; his use of old cuts, 101, 148, 160

Vergetius, Angelus, French Royal Greek types designed by, 172

Verona early book-illustration, 123 _sq._

Villena, Marquis of, _Trabajos de Hercules_, 161

Vincent de Beauvais, his _Speculum_, 165

Violette, Pierre, Rouen printer, 225

Virgil, printed by B. Cennini, colophon quoted, 80; Gruninger's, 112;
Leroy's, 158; Aldine, 167; first English, 226 _sq._; Ogilby's, 289;
Baskerville's, 300

Virginia, early printing in, 249

Viterbo, good roman type, 89

Voltaire, edition of his works printed with Baskerville's type, 300

Vostre, Simon, books printed by Pigouchet for, 150, 154 _sqq._

Wachtlin, Johann, illustrator, 190

Waldegrave, Robert, prints Marprelate tracts, 228. _See_ prints at
Edinburgh, 242

Wale, Samuel, illustrator, 296

Walker, Emery, expert in printing, 304 _sqq._

Walpole, Horace, private press, 238

Walther, F., and Hans Hurning, printers of a _Biblia Pauperum_, 25

Walton, Izaak, illustrations to his _Angler_, 296

Wandsforth, Gerard. _See_ Freez

Wandsworth, secret press at, 228

Weiditz, Hans, illustrator, 186 _sq._

Wenssler, Michael, Basel printer, 60 _sq._

Wesel, Bale's _Catalogus_ printed there, 226

Westphalia, John of, early printer at Alost and Louvain, 73; used
roman type, 89; his woodcut portrait, 119

White, John, his drawings of Virginia, 278

-- Robert., engraver, 289

Whittingham, Charles (uncle and nephew), printers, 302 _sq._

Wilcocks, William, gave commissions to Wynkyn de Worde, 210

Williams, Archbishop, gifts of books by, 5

Wilson, J. D., on English books printed abroad, 233

Winthrop, John, allusion to printing at Cambridge, Mass., 243

Wittenberg, printing at, 169; illustrations, 190

Wolfe, Reyner, Royal painter, 218, 259

Wolgemut, Michael, book-illustrator, 116

Woodcuts, early, their charm and distinctiveness, 15

Worde, Wynkyn de, on Caxton's printing the _De proprietatibus_, 214
_sq._; on the St. Alban's printer, 208; on _Fishing with an Angle_,
209 note; his work as a printer, 211 _sq._; his assessment, 222;
book-illustrations, 253 _sq._

Wurzburg, early printing at, 64

-- Missals, engravings in, 270

Wyer, Robert, London printer, 222

Ximenes, Cardinal, Polyglott Bible, 176

York, printing at, 225, 236 _sqq._

z.a., z.A., woodcuts signed, 194

Zainer, Gunther, first Augsburg printer, 62 _sq._; used roman type,
88; his illustrated books, 103

-- Johann, first Ulm printer, 63; used roman type, 88; his
illustrated books, 106

Zarotus, Antonius, first printer at Milan, 68, 70

Zell, Ulrich, his story of the invention of printing, 35; the first
printer at Cologne, 61

Zenger, Joh. Peter, New York printer, 248

Zinna, the _Psalterium B.V.M._ printed at, 117

Zoan Andrea. _See_ Vavassore, 194

Zurich, English books printed at, 231 _sq._

Zwolle early printing, 72; book-illustrations at, 122

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