ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
English Illumination, 14th Century. From Queen Mary’s Psalter, Brit. Mus. Royal MS. 2B vii (in colors and gold) Frontis.
John Gutenberg. From Engraving by Alphonse Descaves. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris page 6
Aldus Manutius. From Engraving at the British Museum 10
Dott. Comm. Guido Biagi. Seated at one of the plutei in the Laurenziana Library, Florence (1906) 14
Hand-written Humanistic Characters. From Sinibaldi’s Virgil, 1485. Laurenziana Library, Florence 16
Specimen Page of proposed Edition of Dante. To be printed by Bertieri, of Milan, in Humanistic Type 19
Jenson’s Roman Type. From Cicero: Rhetorica, Venice, 1470 22
Emery Walker’s Doves Type. From Paradise Regained, London, 1905 23
Autograph Letter from Charles Eliot Norton 31
Illuminated Page of Petrarch’s Triumphs. Set in Humanistic Type designed by the Author 32
Autograph Page of Eugene Field Manuscript. From Second Book of Verse, New York, 1892 39
Autograph Verse in Field’s own Copy of Trumpet and Drum 41
John Wilson in 1891. Master-Printer 42
Page of Horace Fletcher Manuscript 77
Giambattista Bodoni. From Engraving at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 78
The Bodoni Letter compared with the Didot Letter 81
Horace Fletcher in 1915 82
Autograph Letter from Henry James to Horace Fletcher 87
Mirror Title. From Augustinus: Opera. 1485. Laurenziana Library, Florence 94
T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. From Etching by Alphonse Legros, 1893 96
Carved Ivory Binding, Jeweled with Rubies and Turquoises. From Psalter (12th Century). Brit. Mus. Eger. MS. 1139 112
Byzantine Illumination (11th Century). Psalter in Greek. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 19352 118
Celtic Illumination (8th Century). Lindisfarne Gospels. Brit. Mus. Cotton MS. Nero D. iv 124
Carolingian Handwriting (9th Century). Alcuin Bible. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 10546 126
Carolingian Illumination (9th Century). Golden Gospels of St. Médard. Bibl. Nat. MS. Lat. 8850 128
Gothic Illumination (13th Century). Miniature Page from the Psalter of St. Louis. Bibl. Nat. MS. Lat. 10525 130
Gothic Illumination (13th Century). Text Page from the Psalter of St. Louis. Bibl. Nat. MS. Lat. 10525 132
English Illumination (14th Century). Queen Mary’s Psalter. Brit. Mus. Royal MS. 2B. vii 134
French Illumination (15th Century). Bedford Book of Hours. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 18850 136
French Renaissance Illumination (15th Century). Antiquities of the Jews. Bibl. Nat. MS. Français 247 138
Flemish Illumination (15th Century). Miniature Page from the Grimani Breviary. Bibl. S. Marco, Venice 142
Flemish Illumination (15th Century). Text Page from the Grimani Breviary. Bibl. S. Marco, Venice 144
Italian Illumination (15th Century). Book of Hours, by Francesco d’Antonio. R. Lau. Bibl. Ashb. 1874 146
French Illumination (16th Century). Miniature from Hours of Anne of Brittany. Bibl. Nat. MS. Lat. 9474 148
French Illumination (16th Century). Text Page from Hours of Anne of Brittany. Bibl. Nat. MS. Lat. 9474 150
Order for Payment of 1050 livres tournois to Jean Bourdichon for the Hours of Anne of Brittany, 1508 152
Autograph Letter from Maurice Hewlett 161
Autograph Poem by Austin Dobson 167
Mark Twain. At the Villa di Quarto, Florence, 1904. From a Snap-shot 170
Autograph Letter from Mark Twain. With Snap-shot of Villa di Quarto 172
Autograph Letter from William Dean Howells 185
Part of a Page from the Vellum Copy of the Gutenberg Bible. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 195
Rubricator’s Mark at end of First Volume of a Defective Copy of the Gutenberg Bible, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 196
Rubricator’s Mark at end of Second Volume of a Defective Copy of the Gutenberg Bible, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 197
Gutenberg, Fust, Coster, Aldus Manutius, Froben. From Engraving by Jacob Houbraken (1698–1780) 198
John Fust. From an Old Engraving 199
Device and Explicit of Nicolas Jenson 203
Jenson’s Gothic Type. From Augustinus: De Civitate Dei, Venice, 1475 205
Device of Aldus Manutius 208
Grolier in the Printing Office of Aldus. After Painting by François Flameng. Through Courtesy the Grolier Club, New York City 208
Text Page from Aldus’ Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Venice, 1499 211
Illustrated Page from Aldus’ Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Venice, 1499 212
Grolier Binding. Castiglione: Cortegiano. Aldine Press, 1518. Laurenziana Library, Florence 212
Grolier Binding. Capella: L’Anthropologia. Aldine Press, 1533. Laurenziana Library, Florence 214
Robert Étienne. From Engraving by Étienne Johandier Desrochers (c. 1661–1741) 217
Title Page showing Étienne’s Royal Greeks, Paris, 1550 220
Text Page Showing Étienne’s Roman Face 222
Text Page showing Étienne’s Royal Greeks, from Novum Jesu Christi D. N. Testamentum, Paris, 1550 222
Christophe Plantin. From Engraving by Edme de Boulonois (c. 1550) 225
Title Page of Plantin’s Biblia Polyglotta, Antwerp, 1568 228
Page of Preface of Plantin’s Biblia Polyglotta, Antwerp, 1568 229
Text Pages of Plantin’s Biblia Polyglotta, Antwerp, 1568 230
Second Page of Plantin’s Biblia Polyglotta, Antwerp, 1568 232
Device of Christophe Plantin 236
Title Page of Elzevir’s Terence, Leyden, 1635 241
Text Pages of Elzevir’s Terence, Leyden, 1635 242
John Baskerville 244
Title Page of Baskerville’s Virgil, Birmingham, 1757 247
Text Page of Baskerville’s Virgil, Birmingham, 1757 249
Engraving from Didot’s Racine, Paris, 1801. By Prud’hon 253
Title Page of Didot’s Racine, Paris, 1801 253
Opening Page of Didot’s Racine, Paris, 1801 255
Text Page of Didot’s Racine, Paris, 1801 256
Firmin Didot. From Engraving by Pierre Gustave Eugène Staal (1817–1882) 256
William Morris. From Portrait by G. F. Watts, R. A., in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Painted in 1880 258
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart. From a Photograph at the British Museum 260
Text Page of Kelmscott Chaucer, 1896 262
Title Page of Doves Bible, London, 1905 265
Text Page of Doves Bible, London, 1905 267
The Sala Michelangiolo, in the Laurenziana Library, Florence 276
Dott. Comm. Guido Biagi, in 1924 278
Vestibule of the Laurenziana Library, Florence 280
Miniature Page from the Biblia Amiatina, R. Lau. Bibl. Cod. Amiatinus I 288
Antonio Magliabecchi 293
Library Slips used by George Eliot while working on Romola in Magliabecchian Library, Florence 296