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  OLD PICTURE BOOKS




  OLD PICTURE BOOKS
  WITH OTHER ESSAYS ON
  BOOKISH SUBJECTS, BY
  ALFRED W. POLLARD

  [Illustration]

  LONDON: METHUEN AND CO
  36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. 1902




     To JOHN MACFARLANE,
     _Librarian of the Imperial Library, Calcutta._

     _My dear Macfarlane_,--

     _Just as you had completed a valuable monograph on that
     enterprising French publisher Antoine Verard, you were whirled away
     to India to organise a great library at Calcutta. I have seen it
     stated in the newspapers, on high authority, that your Imperial
     Library is to be a second British Museum, but I am afraid that,
     even when fully developed by your energy and skill, it will contain
     no Verards. I hope, however, that when you come over on furlough
     you will resume the pleasant studies we used to pursue together,
     and that you may even be induced to read another paper before the
     learned Society of which you were once my fellow secretary. To keep
     alive your interest in old books is thus a reasonable pretext for
     dedicating to you these bookish essays. My real hope is that as
     they stand on your book-shelf they may remind you of the original
     British Museum and of the many friends you left behind here after
     your seventeen years' work amid our Bloomsbury fogs._

     _Faithfully yours_,

     ALFRED W. POLLARD




NOTE


The paper on 'England and the Bookish Arts' originally appeared as an
introduction to 'The English Bookman's Library' (Kegan Paul and Co.).
The other Essays are reprinted from 'Bibliographica,' 'The Connoisseur,'
'The Guardian,' 'The Library,' 'The King's College School Magazine,'
'Longman's Magazine,' 'Macmillan's Magazine,' 'The Newbery House
Magazine,' 'The Pageant,' and the 'Transactions' of the Bibliographical
Society. Separate acknowledgment of its source is made at the beginning
of each paper, but the author desires here to thank the Publishers and
Editors to whom he is indebted for permission to reprint. All the essays
have been revised, and some of the illustrations appear here for the
first time.




    CONTENTS


                                                        PAGE
    OLD PICTURE BOOKS                                      3
    FLORENTINE RAPPRESENTAZIONI AND THEIR PICTURES        11
    TWO ILLUSTRATED ITALIAN BIBLES                        37
    A BOOK OF HOURS                                       51
    THE TRANSFERENCE OF WOODCUTS IN THE FIFTEENTH AND
        SIXTEENTH CENTURIES                               73
    ES TU SCHOLARIS?                                      99
    ENGLISH BOOKS PRINTED ABROAD                         106
    SOME PICTORIAL AND HERALDIC INITIALS                 124
    ENGLAND AND THE BOOKISH ARTS                         146
    THE FIRST ENGLISH BOOK SALE                          159
    JOHN DURIE'S 'REFORMED LIBRARIE-KEEPER'              172
    WOODCUTS IN ENGLISH PLAYS PRINTED BEFORE 1660        183
    HERRICK AND HIS FRIENDS                              200
    A POET'S STUDIES                                     216
    PRINTERS' MARKS OF THE FIFTEENTH$1 $2D SIXTEENTH
        CENTURIES                                        227
    THE FRANKS COLLECTION OF ARMORIAL BOOK-STAMPS        242


    BY ALICE POLLARD

    A QUEEN ANNE POCKET-BOOK                             260
    WHY MEN DON'T MARRY                                  273


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