Book 1 — CHAPTER X
Reading edition
BOOKS AND PRINTS: WOOD AND METAL ENGRAVING 146
Renaissance appreciation of beautiful books. Artistic manuscripts. Invention of printing. Most beautiful printed books in the world {xii} Our imitation. Books of Hours. Illustrations. Type-cutting. William Caxton: his place in English prose. Aldus Manutius: Editiones principes of all the classics; career; business troubles; achievements. Geoffrey Tory. Simon de Collines. Champ Fleury. Tory, King's printer. The dream of Poliphilo. Fra Giocondo's illustrations. Dürer and German wood-engraving. Burgkmaier. Holbein. French wood-engraving. German metal-engraving. Italian illustrations. Vesalius' anatomy. Artistic bookbinding. Grolier. Decadence in bookmaking arts