Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects

Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects is a collection of essays by Alfred W. Pollard. Pollard was an English author and bibliographer. Excerpt: «In papers brought together in this volume the reader is asked to look at the woodcuts to two old Italian Bibles, at the beautiful cuts which make the Florentine Miracle Plays or Rappresentazioni so highly esteemed, at the illustrations to French editions of the 'Hours of the Blessed Virgin,' and at some examples of the curious transformations and vicissitudes which old wood blocks and the designs for them went through ere yet either clichés or photographic processes had been invented.»