. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. importations fromabroad. In 1559, in Cunninghams Cosmographical Glass, printed for him byJohn Day, there areseveral large initials,very good of theirkind and very wellprinted. The heral-dic D, which is pecu-liarly graceful, con-tains the arms of theEarl of Leicester, towhom the book isdedicated. The pic-torial I and L (hereshown) are bothsigned, the formerI. D., a signaturewhich recurs on several of the illustrations, the latter I. B.,who was also the designer of the border to the effort seems to have been made to get Du
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. importations fromabroad. In 1559, in Cunninghams Cosmographical Glass, printed for him byJohn Day, there areseveral large initials,very good of theirkind and very wellprinted. The heral-dic D, which is pecu-liarly graceful, con-tains the arms of theEarl of Leicester, towhom the book isdedicated. The pic-torial I and L (hereshown) are bothsigned, the formerI. D., a signaturewhich recurs on several of the illustrations, the latter I. B.,who was also the designer of the border to the effort seems to have been made to get Dudleys armsinto a D, as the opening allusion to Daedalus is certainlydragged in by the shoulders. The other two letters shown,probably have reference to the subject of the book, thePreface, in which the I is found, laying especial stress onthe importance of Cosmography in war. The other pic-torial initials in the book are an S, in which one man ispointing to a sun-dial and another to the sun (signed witha monogram of a C and a small I within it), an A with. INITIAL CONTAINING THEAKMS OF DUDLEY OF LEICESTER PICTORIAL AND HERALDIC INITIALS 141 a procession of satyrs by the same artist, and a T showing
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