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ILLUSTRATIONS.
Statue of John Gutenberg | Frontispiece. |
Surface Exposed to Impression by Copper-plate method | 21 |
Surface Inked and Exposed to Impression by Typographic method | 21 |
Surface Exposed to Impression by Lithographic method | 21 |
Face of a large Type, showing how the Letter is placed on the body | 24 |
Side view of Canon body | 25 |
Small Pica, Agate and Diamond body | 25 |
View of body inclined to show the face | 25 |
Stamped Brick from Babylon | 30 |
Fac-simile of Impression on brick | 31 |
Egyptian Stamp for impressing bricks | 32 |
Assyrian Cylinder | 34 |
Old Roman Stamps | 37 |
Roman Stamps | 38 |
Roman Scrinium and rolls of papyrus | 43 |
Types of Irregular Body | 52 |
Punch | 55 |
Matrix | 55 |
Illustrations of Type-bodies | 56 |
Type-Mould, without matrix | 57 |
One-half of the Mould | 57 |
The other half of the Mould | 57 |
Type-casting as practised in 1683 | 59 |
Type-casting as practised in 1564 | 62 |
Print of St. Christopher | 70 |
Print of the Annunciation | 72 |
Print of St. Bridget | 74 |
Flemish Indulgence Print | 76 |
Brussels Print | 79 |
Berlin Print | 81 |
Playing Card of the fifteenth century | 93 |
Print Colorer | 94 |
Engraver on Wood | 95 |
Chinese Playing Cards | 99 |
Early French Playing Cards | 103 |
French and German Playing Cards of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries | 105 |
Fac-simile of part of a Chinese Book | 117 |
Chinese Types made in London | 117 |
Mark of Jacobus Arnoldus, 1345 | 123 |
Mark of Johannes Meynersen, 1435 | 123 |
Mark of Adam de Walsokne, 1349 | 125 |
Mark of Edmund Pepyr, 1483 | 125 |
Mark of an unknown person | 125 |
Japanese Method of Making Paper | 135 |
Paper-Mill of the sixteenth century | 140 |
Scriptorium of the middle ages | 149 |
Penmanship of the ninth century | 150 |
Manuscript of the fifteenth century | 152 |
Medieval Bookbinding | 153 |
Medieval Illuminator | 154 |
Sumptuously Bound Book | 156 |
Medieval Book with covers of oak | 157 |
Book Cover in Ivory, Byzantine style | 158 |
Seal of the University of Paris | 161 |
English Horn-Book | 174 |
English Clog | 175 |
Holbein's Dance of Death | 183 |
Dance of Death, as shown in the Nuremberg Chronicle | 185 |
Last page of the Bible of the Poor | 197 |
First page of the Bible of the Poor, as made by Walther and Hurning | 209 |
First page of the Apocalypse | 213 |
First page of the Canticles | 217 |
Story of the Blessed Virgin | 221 |
Exercise on the Lord's Prayer | 223 |
Illustration from the Book of Kings | 225 |
Letter K of Grotesque Alphabet | 227 |
Page from the Apostles' Creed | 228 |