Excerpt from The History of Xenophon, Vol. 5 His design is typical of the French School of the latter Fourteenth and early Fifteenth Centuries. It is an outgrowth of the Florentine School, but the tendency towards refinement has reached its highest development. The hues are fine, the pattern intricate and the whole design, while beautiful, IS delicately effemmate. With the introduction of printing in 1450 the art of illumination began to decay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare ...
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Excerpt from The History of Xenophon, Vol. 5 His design is typical of the French School of the latter Fourteenth and early Fifteenth Centuries. It is an outgrowth of the Florentine School, but the tendency towards refinement has reached its highest development. The hues are fine, the pattern intricate and the whole design, while beautiful, IS delicately effemmate. With the introduction of printing in 1450 the art of illumination began to decay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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