Illustration: A page from a Catalogue of Children's Books printed by Isaiah Thomas] Conundrums played their part in the eighteenth century juvenile life, much as they do to-day.
We find his illustrations in the toy-books printed in Boston and Philadelphia; and for Sidney Babcock, a New Haven publisher of juvenile literature, he supplied many of the numerous woodcuts required.
By the bequest of Mr. Grenville's library, the collection of books printed on vellum now at the Museum, and comprising those formerly presented by George II.
Engraved borders are not of common occurrence in Spanish books, though I shall have to notice two striking instances of their use in books printed at Zamora and Valencia.
Apart from the question as to where they were executed, the illuminations in books printed in Germany are not, as a rule, very interesting.
In the List of Books printed in Scotland before 1700, by H.
Of books printed in the sixties one need hardly hope to be able to find more than one in ten asked for, while even those that have been printed comparatively late, in the eighties, have frequently become a rarity.
Schott also used two other sets of a larger size, the same subjects with variations, and which occur likewise inbooks printed at Frankfort about 1550 by Cyriacus Jacob.
The few engravings by or after Holbein that have his name or its initials are to be found in his early frontispieces or vignettes to books printed at Basle.
Dibdin gives, in part 5 of his Bibliomania, a list of some of the more important items, and in part 6 a notice of the large number of books printed on vellum, in the collection.
Bliss, and from his like series, both of books printed in London shortly before the fire of 1666, and of books printed at Oxford.
It is sometimes given in titles of books printed at Oxford about the time of James I, as 'Sapientiae et Felicitatis;' and in an heraldic MS.
We have, thus, an easy transition to the English Service-books printed abroad to which we must now return for a few minutes.
The first Venetian woodcuts not intended to be coloured are found in books printed by Erhard Ratdolt, and their use spread very slowly until nearly 1490.
A larger number of leaves can be taken in books printed on thin paper than in those printed on thick, spongy or heavy papers.
This is not always possible in the case of overcast books or books printed on stiff, brittle paper.
When such a plan is adopted the binder should understand that the library wants neither the cheap books printed on wretched paper and having very small print, nor the very fine editions with colored illustrations.
Books printed on very thick, spongy paper must be sewed very strongly and receive special reinforcements that are not necessary on paper which is more suitable for binding.
Redgrave, A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England .
And editions of books printed at places in the United States where no books are now published are sought for their imprint alone and seldom found.
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