Essays on the illustrated books of the first age of printing by the British Museum bibliographer. Pollard looks at the woodcuts of Florentine sacred plays, two illustrated Italian Bibles, a Book of Hours, how woodblocks travelled from printer to printer in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, English books printed abroad, and pictorial and heraldic initials.
Learned but approachable, for collectors, book historians and anyone who loves early woodcut illustration. Download the free EPUB.