. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. hich 199 are different and 9 arerepetitions. Part 11. contains a large picture and borderfor the opening chapter of Proverbs, and 175 small cuts,of which 166 are different and 9 are repetitions. Deduct-ing the repeats, but counting the initial and each of theCreation woodcuts separately, we have thus a grand totalof 373 different designs, almost all of them well drawn,though many have been sadly mangled by the wood-cutter. It is to the credit of the Venetian public that Giuntas 42 OLD PICTURE BOOKS edition of this big book sold quickl
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. hich 199 are different and 9 arerepetitions. Part 11. contains a large picture and borderfor the opening chapter of Proverbs, and 175 small cuts,of which 166 are different and 9 are repetitions. Deduct-ing the repeats, but counting the initial and each of theCreation woodcuts separately, we have thus a grand totalof 373 different designs, almost all of them well drawn,though many have been sadly mangled by the wood-cutter. It is to the credit of the Venetian public that Giuntas 42 OLD PICTURE BOOKS edition of this big book sold quickly. For reasons here-after to be given I think it possible that a reprint withsome additional cuts was published as early as 1491. Weknow for certain that a new edition (printed again byGiovanni Ragazzo) was ready for sale in July most reprints of illustrated books this aimed at anappearance of greater liberality at a comparatively smallexpense. Thus in the book Genesis there are 27 wood-cuts in 1492 against 16 in 1490, a too realistic picture of. AN AUTHOR AT WORK. FROM THE MALERMI , GIUNTA, 1490 Potiphars wife tempting Joseph being judiciouslyomitted, while twelve new subjects are added. InExodus we have 29 cuts against 25, four new onesbeing added, while on the other hand the representationsof the Burning Bush (in which a dog is shown barking atthe Almighty) and of the Slaying of the Firstborn arewithdrawn and replaced without appropriateness by cutstaken from Deuteronomy ix. and Leviticus x. In Levi-ticus one cut (that to chap, vii.) is changed and a newone added to chap, xviii. In Numbers an illustration of TWO ILLUSTRATED ITALIAN BIBLES 43 the zeal of Phinehas in chap. xxv. is omitted, and twonew cuts added to chaps, xxix. and xxxiii. ; in Deutero-nomy we have six new cuts and a repeat. To these 26additions (against two omissions) in the Pentateuch, wehave to add 14 more (against one repeat omitted) fromJoshua to Kings. From Chronicles to Acts the woo
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