. An inquiry concerning the invention of printing : in which the systems of Meerman, Heinecken, Santander, and Koning are reviewed : including also notices of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, the block-books, etc. . arge figure below,represents Thomas Montacute Earl of Salisbury, and is copied froma drawing in the Harl. MS. No. 4826. The drawing (which doesnot appear to have originally belonged to this manuscript), is done ina very masterly manner upon parchment, with pen and bistre, and alittle wash; and is pasted opposite an account of Lydgate, writtenat a comparatively recent date
. An inquiry concerning the invention of printing : in which the systems of Meerman, Heinecken, Santander, and Koning are reviewed : including also notices of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, the block-books, etc. . arge figure below,represents Thomas Montacute Earl of Salisbury, and is copied froma drawing in the Harl. MS. No. 4826. The drawing (which doesnot appear to have originally belonged to this manuscript), is done ina very masterly manner upon parchment, with pen and bistre, and alittle wash; and is pasted opposite an account of Lydgate, writtenat a comparatively recent date, on paper; the manuscript itself beinga large quarto, or small folio, on parchment. It represents an oldman in a Pilgrims habit, kneeling, and presenting a book to the abovenobleman ; Lydgate, himself, who appears as a monk of about the ageof forty, standing by. Over the drawing, on the paper whereon it ispasted, is written: Lidgat presenting his book, called ye Pilgrime,unto ye Earl of Salisbury. I have little or no doubt that this drawingwas originally prefixed as a frontispiece to the manuscript of thePilgrim, Tib. A. VII. in the Cottonian Collection; which manuscript C< a £&.$. .^j ■ stun(^,5 Dtttol^)Datocl4^O?;; .[ ! ,- )-
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