. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. 9. HERALDIC INITIAL FROM GRAFTONS EDITIONOF HALL. LONDON, 1548 and VIII., with an open H ; that of Henry vi. with a D, of Edward iv. witha P, and of HenryVII. with a fine C(), each lettercontaining thekings arms. In 1551, in thequarto Bibleprinted by JohnDay, the dedica-tion to Edward Edmond Beckebegins with areally excellentpictorial E (shown in fig. 10), representing the offer of a copy to the 10. FROM A BIBLE PRINTED BY JOHN , 1551. 4TO. 140 OLD PICTURE BOOKS As in the case of the initials for Halls Chro
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. 9. HERALDIC INITIAL FROM GRAFTONS EDITIONOF HALL. LONDON, 1548 and VIII., with an open H ; that of Henry vi. with a D, of Edward iv. witha P, and of HenryVII. with a fine C(), each lettercontaining thekings arms. In 1551, in thequarto Bibleprinted by JohnDay, the dedica-tion to Edward Edmond Beckebegins with areally excellentpictorial E (shown in fig. 10), representing the offer of a copy to the 10. FROM A BIBLE PRINTED BY JOHN , 1551. 4TO. 140 OLD PICTURE BOOKS As in the case of the initials for Halls Chronicle, thisdesign must have been specially prepared for the book,and therefore presumably in England, so that we neednot set down other letters too freely as 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, t
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