EARLY WOODCUT INITIALS

EARLY WOODCUT INITIALS

CONTAINING OVER THIRTEEN HUNDRED REPRODUCTIONS OF ORNAMENTAL LETTERS OF THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES, SELECTED AND ANNOTATED BY OSCAR JENNINGS, M.D. MEMBER OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

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First published in 1908

I DEDICATE THESE PAGES TO MY WIFE AS A SLIGHT RECOGNITION OF HER CONSTANT PATIENCE AND DEVOTION