. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. ectus. He breathed upon them andfilled them with his music, so that they assimilate soadmirably with his verse, that even when he printed themp 226 OLD PICTURE BOOKS in italics the meaning of the change of type has longremained a secret to his commentators. It has become acommonplace of criticism to write of Herrick as a butter-fly, but he was really a conscious artist, and no mean examples which have been given in this paper havenecessarily been chosen chiefly to illustrate the width ofhis reading. If space allowed, it would
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. ectus. He breathed upon them andfilled them with his music, so that they assimilate soadmirably with his verse, that even when he printed themp 226 OLD PICTURE BOOKS in italics the meaning of the change of type has longremained a secret to his commentators. It has become acommonplace of criticism to write of Herrick as a butter-fly, but he was really a conscious artist, and no mean examples which have been given in this paper havenecessarily been chosen chiefly to illustrate the width ofhis reading. If space allowed, it would be pleasant toadduce others with the special object of exhibiting theskilfulness of his transmutations. Even in those we havegiven, few genuine lovers of poetry will deny that while totranslate luserunt navigia by where late they dancedis merely a happy stroke of scholarship, the rendering of* in lubrico by on icy pavements, or regnare nescit by he rents his crown, is sheer genius. PRINTERS MARKS 227 PRINTERS MARKS OF THE FIFTEENTHAND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES^. IF truth is to be told, I have never as yet met withany amateur who collected books for the sake of theprinters mark at the beginning or end of them. Butit has always seemed to me that it would be an agreeablevariety of book-collecting to do this, and one which wouldlead the collector along manyby-paths of curious fear of any possible mis-take, I should perhaps empha-sise the point that the collectionmust be one not of printersmarks cut out from books, butof books in which the marksare printed. Even in the case of book-plates, it hasoften been noted how much they gain in interest whenthey are found in situ, though there is always the haunt-ing fear that the conjunction of book and plate may onlybe due to the ingenuity of the vendor. Book-plates, how-ever, have of right a separate existence apart from books,since they are made separately and must await theirowners pleasure before they can be set to their properwo
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