This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. THE NORTHERN SCHOOLS OF WOOD-ENGRAVING FROM EARLY TIME TO ALBERT DURER. Division L--Wood-engraving. A. Northern Schools, as Germany, Holland, Flanders, Switzerland, France, England, illustrated by the --Earliest prints or incunabula. fi--Saint Christopher of 1423, and other early dated ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. THE NORTHERN SCHOOLS OF WOOD-ENGRAVING FROM EARLY TIME TO ALBERT DURER. Division L--Wood-engraving. A. Northern Schools, as Germany, Holland, Flanders, Switzerland, France, England, illustrated by the --Earliest prints or incunabula. fi--Saint Christopher of 1423, and other early dated prints. y--Block-books. i--Early single or i fly' sheets. t--Niirnberg Chronicle, Schatzbehalter, Wohlgemuth, Pleydenwurff." THE earliest examples of the art of wood-engraving, illustrated by impressions on paper and vellum, which have reached us, 1. e. incunabula, have not, unfortunately with but very few exceptions, any dates marked on them, so that we cannot be certain of the exact period when they were produced. The oldest wood-cut with a date generally accepted as authentic is an engraving known as the Buxheim Saint Christopher, familiar from facsimiles and reduced copies. It has the year ' millesimo ccccxx tercio' (or terno) inscribed on it. There is, however, another print, the Brussels Virgin, discovered since the Saint Christopher, which lays claim to being five years older than the latter, and exhibits the date Mccccxviii. But the genuineness of the inscription has been called in question by some good authorities, and it is maintained that the Buxheim Saint Christopher is still the oldest wood-cut known, having a date beyond suspicion. There is a third cut with an early date on it--a Saint Sebastian marked with 1437. Besides there are two others on which are written the dates 1440 and 1443 respectively. The before-mentioned wood-engravings are the only ones hitherto discovered, bearing distinct dates anterior to the second half of the fifteenth century, and of these but one alone--the Saint Christopher--can be said to be accepted...
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