. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. 4. FROM AN OROSIUS PUBLISHED BY VERARD, 1509 Pierre Le Rouge, have any high pictorial value. Inanother L, used at Paris and at Lyons, we have inter-twined the faces of an old man and a young couple was no doubt specially designed for the 1492 edition ofI I30 OLD PICTURE BOOKS the Matheolus, or quinze joies du mariage, in which itseems to have made its first appearance. The monkeyand bagpipes L of the Recueil des histoires troyennes,and the S. George-and-the-Dragon L of a Lyons reprint. 5, INITIAL L USED BY JACQUES MAILLET
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. 4. FROM AN OROSIUS PUBLISHED BY VERARD, 1509 Pierre Le Rouge, have any high pictorial value. Inanother L, used at Paris and at Lyons, we have inter-twined the faces of an old man and a young couple was no doubt specially designed for the 1492 edition ofI I30 OLD PICTURE BOOKS the Matheolus, or quinze joies du mariage, in which itseems to have made its first appearance. The monkeyand bagpipes L of the Recueil des histoires troyennes,and the S. George-and-the-Dragon L of a Lyons reprint. 5, INITIAL L USED BY JACQUES MAILLET AT LYONS of the Mer des Histoires may also be reckoned aspictorial, but the more ordinary varieties are purelygrotesque combinations of distorted faces. These hadhardly gone out of fashion before the Renaissanceinfluence was paramount, and though I have found a few PICTORIAL AND HERALDIC INITIALS small pictorial initials in sixteenth-century French books,notably a very pretty set in a Utrecht Missal, printed byWolfgang Hopyl at Paris in 1505,^ they are certainlyexceptional. In Spain the dignity and severity which marks thework of the early printers were opposed to any savepurely decorative initials, which, probably through theinfluence of the German printers in the Peninsula, cameinto use at an early date, and were often strikingly one pictorial set I have found occurs in the Copila-cion de Leyes, promulgated in 1485, and printed byCentenera at Zamora, probably in the same year. Eachof these initials, nine in number, is appropriate to
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