CHAPTER IV.

WOOD ENGRAVING IN CONNEXION WITH THE PRESS, 164-229.

Initial letter C, from Faust and Scheffer’s Psalter 164 Apes, from a book of Fables printed at Bamberg by Albert Pfister, 1461 171 Heads, from an edition of the Poor Preachers’ Bible, printed by Pfister 177 Christ and his Disciples, from the same 177 Joseph making himself known to his Brethren, from the same 178 The Prodigal Son’s return, from the same 178 The Creation of Animals, from Meditationes Joannis de Turrecremata, printed at Rome, 1467 185 A bomb-shell and a man shooting from a kind of hand-gun, from Valturius de Re Militari, printed at Verona, 1472 188 A man shooting from a cross-bow, from the same 189 The Knight, from Caxton’s Book of Chess, about 1476 193 The Bishop’s pawn, from the same 194 Two figures-- Music, from Caxton’s Mirrour of the World, 1480 196 Frontispiece to Breydenbach’s Travels, printed at Mentz, 1486 207 Syrian Christians, from the same 209 Old Woman with a basket of eggs on her head, from the Hortus Sanitatis, printed at Mentz, 1491 211 Head of Paris, from the book usually called the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed at Nuremberg, 1493 212 Creation of Eve, from the same 215 The same subject from the Poor Preachers’ Bible 216 The difficult Labour of Alcmena, from an Italian translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, 1497 217 Mars, Venus, and Mercury, from Poliphili Hypnerotomachia, printed at Venice, 1499 221 Cupid brought by Mercury before Jove, from the same 222 Cupid and his Victims, from the same 222 Bacchus, from the same 223 Cupid, from the same 224 A Vase, from the same 224 Cat and Mouse, from a supposed old wood-cut printed in Derschau’s Collection, 1808-1816 226 Man in armour on horseback, from a wood-cut, formerly used by Mr. George Angus of Newcastle 228 Tail-piece-- the press of Jodocus Badius Ascensianus, from the title-page of a book printed by him about 1498 229