. 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. . rpendicularly at equal distances; and that the same will befound (unless, indeed, I mistake this appearance) in the monumentaleffigy of Sir Miles Stapleton, of 1365, at Plate 20 No. 1, and in afigure from a Dutch manuscript of about 1420, in the collection ofHis Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, at Plate 24. Further Remarks on the Costume of the Speculum, and Description
. 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. . rpendicularly at equal distances; and that the same will befound (unless, indeed, I mistake this appearance) in the monumentaleffigy of Sir Miles Stapleton, of 1365, at Plate 20 No. 1, and in afigure from a Dutch manuscript of about 1420, in the collection ofHis Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, at Plate 24. Further Remarks on the Costume of the Speculum, and Description of Plates. In speaking of the plates of costume now to be produced, I shalloffer some remarks, in addition to what Dr. Meyrick has said in theforegoing dissertation; besides which, I shall occasionally borrowfrom that gentlemans printed works, or from other quarters, suchshort illustrative passages as seem suited to my purpose : if, in doingthis, I should sometimes fall into repetition, it is because I could notwell avoid it, consistently with my wish, to convey to the reader the 332 FURTHER REMARKS ON THE [chap. XIV. most complete idea possible, of the armour and other costume of theSpeculum, in all their The armour of Jeptha, in the 10th Cut of the Speculum,—thecopy of which, for the sake of easy reference, is here re-produced—is decidedly of an early character. The palette of an oblong form,defending the arm-pit, as here represented, is sufficiently common inmonumental effigies and illuminations of the early part of HenryVlths reign, but is comparatively seldom found in those of later see it in the brass monuments, among others, of Sir ThomasBromflete, who died 1430, and of Sir Thomas Chaucer, son of thepoet, in 1431 ; (see Goughs Sepulchral Antiquities) also in that ofSir Brian Stapleton, in 1432, (Plate 21, No. 3.), and in the monumentof Lord Bardolf, of about 1438 or earlier, (Plate 20 No. 3.); also intwo illuminated manuscripts of Lydgate, in the
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