. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. ^^ ^fflre^i/ quonian) e^pauSict bon:^^K^nm ^(tt) mtimie mzt*Qjii(xincUnauit<mtttt) fuan)nii^ii etit) 5te6u6 mete inuocado*CDtcun5c5etwnt mebofozcemoz(fete(|jedcuf« infnni immcmnt me*. FROM TORYS HORAE. PARIS, 1527 68 OLD PICTURE BOOKS added, in addition to the Dance of Death, figures of theSaints, Prophets, Angels, and Virtues, representations ofthe Sibyls, emblems of the Fifteen Signs of ComingJudgment, and scenes from the life of the Blessed Virginand our Lord, and from the Old Testament. Partly for convenience of printing, but m
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. ^^ ^fflre^i/ quonian) e^pauSict bon:^^K^nm ^(tt) mtimie mzt*Qjii(xincUnauit<mtttt) fuan)nii^ii etit) 5te6u6 mete inuocado*CDtcun5c5etwnt mebofozcemoz(fete(|jedcuf« infnni immcmnt me*. FROM TORYS HORAE. PARIS, 1527 68 OLD PICTURE BOOKS added, in addition to the Dance of Death, figures of theSaints, Prophets, Angels, and Virtues, representations ofthe Sibyls, emblems of the Fifteen Signs of ComingJudgment, and scenes from the life of the Blessed Virginand our Lord, and from the Old Testament. Partly for convenience of printing, but more, we mayimagine, for the sake of producing an appearance ofendless variety, these border-pieces were not cut in asingle block, but were detachable, so that they could beused in different combinations. In several editions, evenin one of that very scholarly and artistic printer GeoffroyTory, this is effected at the cost of suggesting that theblock had been accidentally broken, as in the page alreadyshown from his edition of 1527, where at the foot thepieces do not even fit together. The more general plan,however, was that exemplified in Torys edition of 1525,where it is carried out with unusual precision, the bordersbeing built up by the
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