A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . M2 164 WOOD ENGRAVING CHAPTEE IV. WOOD ENGRAVING IN CONNEXION WITH THE PRESS. rAUST AND SCHEFFKRS PSALTER OF 1457 —PUIXTING AT BAMBERG IN 1461—BOOKS CON-TAIXING WOOD-CUTS PRINTED THERE BY ALBERT PFISTER—OPPOSITIOX OF THE WOODENGRAVERS OF AUGSBURG TO THE EARLIEST PRINTERS ESTABLISHED IN THAT CITY — TRAVELLING PRINTERS WOOD-CUTS IN MEDITATIONES JOHANNIS DE TURRE-CREMATA, ROME, 1467 ; AND IN VALTURIUS DE RE MILITARI, VERONA, 1472 — WOOD-CUTSFREQUENT IN BOOKS PRINTED AT AUGSBURG BETWEEN 1474 AND 1480 - WOOD-CUTS IN BOOKS PRINTED BY CAXTON
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A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . M2 164 WOOD ENGRAVING CHAPTEE IV. WOOD ENGRAVING IN CONNEXION WITH THE PRESS. rAUST AND SCHEFFKRS PSALTER OF 1457 —PUIXTING AT BAMBERG IN 1461—BOOKS CON-TAIXING WOOD-CUTS PRINTED THERE BY ALBERT PFISTER—OPPOSITIOX OF THE WOODENGRAVERS OF AUGSBURG TO THE EARLIEST PRINTERS ESTABLISHED IN THAT CITY — TRAVELLING PRINTERS WOOD-CUTS IN MEDITATIONES JOHANNIS DE TURRE-CREMATA, ROME, 1467 ; AND IN VALTURIUS DE RE MILITARI, VERONA, 1472 — WOOD-CUTSFREQUENT IN BOOKS PRINTED AT AUGSBURG BETWEEN 1474 AND 1480 - WOOD-CUTS IN BOOKS PRINTED BY CAXTON MAPS ENGRAVED ON WOOD, 1482 — PROGRESS OF MAP ENGRAVING—CROSS-HATCHING — FLOWERED BORDERS — HORTUS SANITATIS — NUREMBERGCHRONICLE—WOOD ENGRAVING IN ITALY—POLIPHILI HYPNEBOTOMACIIIA—DECLINE OFBLOCK-PRINTING—OLD WOODCUTS IN DERSCHAUs COLLECTION.. ONSIDEEING Gutemberg as the inventor ofprinting with moveable types ; that his firstattempts were made at Strasburg about 1436 ;and that with Fausts money and Scheffersingenuity the art was perfected at Mentz about1452, I shall now proceed to trace the progressof wood engraving in its connexion with thepress. In the first book which appeared with adate and the printers names—the Psalterprinted by Taust and Scheffer, at Mentz, in1457—the large initial letters, engraved on wood and printed in red^^3 and blue ink, are the most beautiful specimens of this kind of ornamentwhich the united efforts of the wood-engraver and the pressman haveproduced. They have been imitated in modern times, but not excelled.As they are the first letters, in point of time, printed with two colours, so are they likely to continue the first in point of excellence. Only seven copies of the Psalter of 1457 are known, and they areall printed on vellum. Although they have all the same colophon, containing the prin