. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. ^^y FROM TORYS HORAE. PARIS, 1525 66 OLD PICTURE BOOKS his punishment. His victory over GoHath is also occa-sionally represented. We also find in several earlyeditions Les Trois Vifs placed over against Les TroisMorts, three gay knights on one page and three grinningskeletons on another, and in Torys Heures a Iusage deParis of 1527 we have a striking picture of Death, on hisblack horse, riding over the corpses of his victims todeliver yet another summons. The Calendar, again, isusually prefaced by a figure of a man, with all the organ
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. ^^y FROM TORYS HORAE. PARIS, 1525 66 OLD PICTURE BOOKS his punishment. His victory over GoHath is also occa-sionally represented. We also find in several earlyeditions Les Trois Vifs placed over against Les TroisMorts, three gay knights on one page and three grinningskeletons on another, and in Torys Heures a Iusage deParis of 1527 we have a striking picture of Death, on hisblack horse, riding over the corpses of his victims todeliver yet another summons. The Calendar, again, isusually prefaced by a figure of a man, with all the organsof his body exposed, and lines drawn from them to thecelestial bodies, which, in the popular beliefs, weresupposed to influence their health and sickness. Of allthese illustrations five or six different varieties are found ;but from 1495 to the end of the century, the set of designswhich was used for our little Sarum Horae was by far themost popular, and influenced the editions of all the leadingpublishers. To trace the history of these border-pieces wou
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