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Ovid’s Metamorphoses, printed at Venice, 1497,217.Ovingham, the parsonage at,473;the church,512.Oxford Sausage, with wood-cuts, 1764,470.PPackhouse’s machine for tints,584n.Palatino, G. B. his work on Penmanship,395.661Palmer, W. J. wood-engraver,557.Paper, proper for printing wood-cuts,646;India paper, injurious to wood-cuts,ib.Paper-mark in an old book of wood-cuts,107.Paper money, early,25n.Papillon, John, the elder,443.Papillon, John Michael, his story of the Cunio,26;his character,35;notice of his works,457-467.Parafe, or ruche,14.Parker, Archbishop, his portrait, engraved by R. Hogenberg, 1572,422.Parkinson’s Paradisus Terrestris,442.Parmegiano, chiaro-scuros after his designs,403.Pasti, Matteo, supposed to have designed the cuts in Valturius de Re Militari, 1472,186.Patin’s Life of Holbein,372.Patroner, the word explained,330n.Paul of Prague, his definition of “libripagus,”182.Pearson, G. wood engraver,573*,574*.Pepyr, Edmund, his mark,18.Peringskiold,14.Petit-Jehan de Saintré, Chronicle of,41.Petrarch’s Sonnets, Lyons, 1545, cuts in,400.Petronius,8,15.Pfintzing, Melchior, joint author of Sir Theurdank,282.Pfister, Albert, works printed by, at Bamberg in 1461 and 1462,170,181.Phillery, properly Willem, de figursnider, mistakes about a cut of his engraving,310.Phiz (H. K. Browne), draughtsman,599*.Piccard, T. Nieuhoff, an unknown discoverer of a painting of the Dance of Death, by Holbein,360,363.Pickersgill, F. R. painter,599*.Pictura, a wood-cut sometimes called,357.Pilgrim, John Ulric, cuts ascribed to,317.Pinkerton, John, his statement that several of the cuts in Bewick’s Quadrupeds were drawn on the block by R. Johnson,491n.Pinx. et Scalp. not to be found on early wood-cuts,35.Pirkheimer, Bilibald, letters written to him by Albert Durer,242;his letter to J. Tscherte, announcing Durer’s death,273.Pittacia, small labels,8n.Playing cards,40.Plebanus, a curate or vicar,61n.Pleydenwurff, William, with M. Wolgemuth, superintends the cuts of the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1491,212.Ploughman, Pierce, his Creed,18.Plug, mode of inserting in an engraved wood-block,549.Poetry, specimen of Durer’s,260;specimens of Clennell’s, when insane,526.Poliphili Hypnerotomachia,218,220,224.Polo, Marco,25.Poor Preacher’s Bible,80-94,175-179.Portraits of Bewick, list of the principal,509.Powis, W. H. wood engraver,544.Prayer-book, Queen Elizabeth’s, 1569,427.Prenters of Antwerp in 1442,121.Press made for Gutemberg previous to 1438,127.Press, rolling, for copper-plate printing,4.Press, steam, wood-cuts printed by,644.Preusch, his attempt to print maps by a typometric process,205.Printing, Gutemberg occupied with the invention of, in 1436,127.Printing in colours, a figure of Christ, with the date 1543,403;Savage’s decorative printing,629;G. Baxter’s improvements,629;C. Knight’s patent illuminated prints and maps,630.Printing wood-cuts, best mode of,640.Priority of editions of the Speculum Salvationis,100.Procession, triumphal, of Maximilian,288,289.Procopius,13.Proofs of wood engravings, mode of unfairly taking,466,603.Prout, J. S. draughtsman,599*.Psalter, printed by Faust and Scheffer in 1457,164.Ptolemy’s Cosmography, with maps, engraved on wood, 1483,199;an edition printed by Dominico de Lapis, at Bologna,201;at Venice, by J. Pentius de Leucho, 1511,203.QQuadrin’s Historiques de la Bible,402.Quadrupeds, History of, with cuts, by Bewick, 1791,482-490.Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer-book,427.Quintilian, his notice of the manner of boys learning to write by tracing the letters through a stencil,12.RRaffaele, designs for the wood-cuts of the Hypnerotomachia ascribed to him,219;a wood-cut after a drawing by, in Marcolini’s Sorti,389.Rahmenschneiders, or border-cutters,190,319.Raidel, his Dissertation on an edition of Ptolemy,201;dates, erroneous in books,ib.Raimbach, Abraham, his engraving of the Rent-day, after Sir D. Wilkie,213.Randell, a printer’s apprentice, wood-cuts by,180.Raynalde’s Birth of Mankind, with three copper-plate engravings, 1540,421.Read, S. draughtsman,599*.Rebus, or “name devises,”398.Redgrave, R. painter,599*.Relief, metallic, engraving in, erroneous statements about,305;practised by Blake and others,632-636.Rembrandt, cuts copied from etchings by,595,599,602,605.Renaudot, l’Abbé,24.Rent-day, engraving of a group from, after Sir D. Wilkie,593.Repairing wood-cuts,569n.662Reperdius, George, a painter praised by Nicholas Bourbon,356.Requeno’s Chirotipografia,44n.Revelationes Cœlestes sanctæ Brigittæ de Suecia,321.Reynolds, Nicholas, an English engraver on copper, 1575,420.Reyser, George, printer of the Missale Herbipolense, 1481,202.Roberts, David, painter,599*.Robin Hood’s Garland, with wood-cut on the title-page, 1670,444,445.Rocca, Angelus, mentions a Donatus on parchment,123n.Rogers, Harry, draughtsman,599*.Rogers, William, an English copper-plate engraver, about 1600,423.Rolling-press,4.Rollers, composition, not so good as composition balls for inking certain kinds of wood-cuts,650.Roman stamps,8,10.Rotundity, how indicated by straight lines,584.Rouen Cathedral,611.Rubbing down,389.Rubens. P. P. his praise of the cuts in the Lyons Dance of Death, designed by Holbein,365;wood engravings from his designs,438,439.Ruche, or parafe,14.Runic cyphers and monograms,15.Ryther, Augustine, an English engraver on copper, 1575,420.SSachs, Hans, his descriptions of cuts designed by Jost Amman,408.Salmincio, Andrea, wood-cuts ascribed to,441.Sandbag and block,575.Sandrart, J. his notice of the Dance of Death, with cuts designed by Holbein,365.Saspach, Conrad, his evidence in the Drytzehns’ suit against Gutemberg, 1438,128.Savage, W. chiaro-scuros in his hints on Decorative Printing,629;his opinion as to the best mode of working a form containing wood-cuts,647.Saxton, Christopher, his collection of English County Maps, engraved on copper, 1573-1579,420.Schapf, George, an early wood engraver,142,228.Schäufflein, Hans, painter, generally supposed to have engraved on wood,281,283,284,285,287.Schedel, Hartman, compiler of the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493,212.Scheffer, Peter, a partner of Gutemberg and Faust,132;mentioned by Faust as his servant,133;a clerk, or copyist of books,167.Schelhorn’s Amœnitates,113.Schœpflin, Vindiciæ Typographicæ,125,132.Schön, Martin,74,238.Schön, Erhard,406.Schonberg, Mr. his attempts to engrave in metallic relief,634.Schönsperger, Hans, the printer of Sir Theurdank,282.Schopper, Hartman, verses by, in a book of trades and professions,409.Schoting of Nuremberg, a cut thus inscribed, the date 1584, mistaken for 1384,59.Schultheis, Hans, his evidence in the Drytzehns’ suit against Gutemberg, 1438,127.Schussler, John, a printer of Augsburg,180.Schwartz, J. G. Documenta de Origine Typographiæ,124,133,134,142.Scopoli, mistakes Mr. B. White’s sign for the name of his partner,313.Scott, T. D. draughtsman,599*.Scrive, a tool to mark timber with,2.Scrivener and Greffier,2n.Scriverius, his account of Coster’s invention,151n.Seals, engraved,20.Sebastian, St. account of an old wood-cut of,55.Selous, H. C. painter,599*.Shade for the eyes,575.Shaw, Henry, draughtsman,599*.Shields of arms in the block-book called The Apocalypse,65;in the History of the Virgin,75,76,77,78.Sichem, Cornelius van, wood engraver,439.Silberrad, Dr. old wood-cuts in the possession of,227.Simulachres et Historiées Faces de la Mort, Lyons, 1538,328.Singer’s Researches on the History of Playing Cards,9;his unacknowledged obligations to Breitkopf,10.Skelton, Percival,550,569*.Skippe, John, chiaro-scuros engraved by,628.Slader, Samuel, wood engraver,544.Sly, Stephen, his experiments in metallic relief,636.Smith, John Orrin, wood engraver,544.Smith, Orrin. wood engraver,580*.Smyth, F. G. wood-engraver,600*.Snuff-box, George the Fourth’s, with designs, by Flaxman,590.Solis, Virgil,406.Solomon, song of, illustrations,71,72.Solomon, A. painter,599*.Solomon, Bernard, of Lyons,398-401,407.Somervile’s Chase, with cuts, designed by John Bewick,513.Sonetto figurato,395-397.Sorg, Anthony, of Augsburg, account of the Council of Constance, with wood-cuts, printed by him in 1483,189.Sorti, Marcolini’s, a work containing wood-cuts,389-393.Southey, Robert, his notice of two odes by Lloyd and Colman, with wood-cuts,470.Spanish marks,15.Specklin, D. mentions wooden types,131.Speculum Nostræ Salutis,149.Speculum Salvationis, a misnamed block-book,95-106;cuts from,96,97,98.663Speed’s History of Britain,442.Sporer, Hans, an old briefmaler,43.Springinklee, Hans,287,320.Stabius, J. his description of the triumphal arch of Maximilian,256.Stamham, Melchior de, Abbot of St. Ulric and Afra, at Augsburg, printing-presses bought by him,165n.Stampien, to stamp with the foot as a fiddler beats time, mistaken for printing,120.Stamping of letters in manuscripts,44.Stampilla,14.Stamps, Roman,8;notarial,17.Stanfield, Clarkson, R.A.570*.Steiner, J. M. his notice of a book printed at Bamberg in 1462,170.Stencilling,12,40n.Stephenson, James, draughtsman,599*.Stereotype, early,418;modern,636.Stigmata,12.Stimmer, Christopher, and Tobias,413.Stocks, Lumb, draughtsman,599*.Stoke-field, knights and bannerets created after the battle of,191.Stonehouse, artist,591*.Stothard, Thomas, R.A. his Illustrations of Rogers’s Poems, 1812, engraved on wood,524.Strephon’s Revenge, 1724, copy of a tail-piece in,453.Sueur, le, Peter and Vincent,443;Nicholas,467.Sulman, T. draughtsman,599*.Swain, John, wood engraver,579*,581*.Swain, Joseph, wood-engraver,600*.Swedish coins,15.Sweynheim, Conrad, printer, the first that devised maps engraved on copper,200.Switzer, cuts engraved by,442.Sylvius, Æneas, his account of the Barnacle or Tree goose,415.TTail-pieces in Bewick’s Quadrupeds,486.Tell, William,416,417.Temple, W. W. a pupil of Bewick,527.Tenniel, John, artist,559,560.Terms, abstract, derived from names expressive of tangible and visible things,214.Terra-cottas, called Typi,7.Testament, Figures du Nouveau,402.Theodoric, his monogram,13.Ther-Hoernen, Arnold, prints at Cologne an edition of the Fasciculus Temporum, with wood-cuts, 1474,190.Theurdank, the Adventures of, an allegorical poem, by the Emperor Maximilian and his Secretary,281;the text erroneously supposed to have been engraved on wood,283.Thomas, G. H. artist,565*-567*.Thomas, W. L. wood engraver,565*,568*.Thompson, Charles, wood engraver,541n.Thompson, Eliza, wood engraver,541n.Thompson, John, wood engraver, a pupil of R. Branston, notice of some of his principal cuts,541,569*.Thurston, John, designer on wood,519n.Tindale, William, cuts in his translation of the New Testament, 1534,383-385.Tinsel money,16.Tints, mode of cutting,577-581.Tint-tools,577.Titian, wood-cuts after,433,435.Tools, wood engravers’,576-530.Topham, F. W. draughtsman,599*.Topsell’s History of Four-footed Beasts,442.Tract printed by A. Pfister, at Bamberg, 1461, 1462,170,181.Transferring old impressions of wood-cuts,104n;old wood-cuts and copper-plates,637.Travelling printers,184.Tree goose,414.Treitzsaurwein. M. Secretary to the Emperor Maximilian, nominal author of the Weiss Kunig,286.Treschel, Melchior and Gaspar, printers of the Lyons Dance of Death, 1538, with cuts, designed by Hans Holbein,330.Trimming,606.Triompho di Fortuna,315-317.Trithemius, his account of the invention of printing,131.Triumphal procession, usually called the Triumphs of Maximilian,288-304.Trusler, Dr. his Progress of Man and Society, with cuts, by John Bewick,613.Turner, Dr. William, his account of the Tree goose,414.Turner, the Rev. William, his opinion of cross-hatching,562.Turrecremata, J. de, his Meditationes,184.Typi,7.Typography, invention of,118;not a chance discovery,145.UUlphilas, Gospels of,44.Underlaying wood-cuts, mode of,645n.Unger, father and son, German wood engravers, 1779,403,483,545.Urse Graff, a cut designed by, probably copied by Willem de Figuersnider,313;other cuts with his mark,314.VVagabonds and sturdy beggars,12.Valcebro, Ferrer de, his notice of the Bernacle or Tree goose,416.Valturius, R. de Re Militari,186.Vasari, George, claims the invention of chiaro-scuro engraving for Ugo da Cai,230.Vasey, George, wood engraver,544.Vaugris, V. printer of a piracy of the Lyons Dance of Death, at Venice, 1542,393.Vecellio, Cesare, his book of Costumes, Venice, 1589,433.Vegetable putties, a theory of Mr. J. Landseer,72.Veldener, John, printer of an edition of the Speculum Salvationis, 1483,106;one of the earliest printers who introduced ornamental borders engraved on wood,191.664Venice, foreign cards prohibited to be brought into the city of, 1441,43.Verona, Johannes de,186.Vesalius’s Anatomy, Basle, 1548, erroneously said to contain cuts designed by Titian,433.Vignettes,615.Vincentini, J. N. engraver of chiaro-scuros,389.Vizetelly, H. wood engraver,558,570*,571*.Vostre, Simon, Heures printed by him,232.WWaagen, Dr. G. F. extract from his evidence before the Committee on Arts and Manufactures,322.Walsokne, Adam de, his mark,18.Walton’s Angler, cuts of fish in Major’s edition of,541,543.Wand-Kalendars, or sheet almanacks, 1470, 1500,225.Ward, James, R.A. cut of a dray-horse from a drawing by,596.Warren, H. painter,599*.Watson. J. D. draughtsman,599*.Watts, S. his engravings, 1703,471.Waved lines,583.Webster, T. painter,599*.Wehnert, G. H. artist,594*.Weir, Harrison, artist,551,555.Weiss-Kunig,286.West, Benjamin, his design for the diploma of the Highland Society,523.Wethemstede, John, prior of St. Albans,111.White, Henry, senior and junior, wood engravers,544.White outline,587,598.Whitehall, fictions about a Dance of Death painted by Holbein in the old palace at,360-363.Whiting, Chas. his colour-printing,630.Whymper, J. W. wood engraver,544,569*.Wilkie, Sir David, R.A. his sketch for his picture of the Rabbit on the Wall,591;group from his Rent-day,593;from his Village Festival,614.Willett, R. his opinion of wooden types,136.Williams, J. wood engraver,588*.Williams, Samuel, artist and wood engraver,544,572*.Williams, Thomas, wood engraver,544,547.Willis, Edward, a pupil of Bewick,522n.Wimperis, E. wood-engraver,600*.Wimpheling, verses by him, celebrating Gutemberg as the inventor of printing,155.Wirtemberg, Counts of, their arms,78.Wolf, J. artist,573*,574*.Wolgemuth, Michael, not the first that introduced cross-hatching in wood engravings,239.Women, engravers on wood,235.Wood for the purposes of engraving, several kinds mentioned by Papillou,464;mode of preparing,562-568.Wood-cut, the earliest known with a date,45.Wood-cuts, largest modern; directions for cleaning,649.Wood engravers, early, unfriendly to the progress of typography,179.Wooden types,131,136,137.Woods, H. N. wood-engraver,600*.Wootie, Mr. his patent for engraving in metallic relief,634.Worde. W. de, cuts in books printed by him,196,198.Wordsworth, William, his high opinion of Bewick’s talents,512.Wright, John, wood engraver,544.Wright, W. wood engraver,554.Wyatt, Sir Thomas, a wood-cut portrait of, from a drawing, by Holbein,379.Wyburd, F. painter,599*.ZZainner, Gunther, of Augsburg,179;the Legenda Aurea, with wood-cuts, printed by him, in 1471,188.Zainer, John, of Reutlingen, prints at Ulm in 1473, an edition of Boccacio de Claris Mulieribus, with wood-cuts,190.Zani’s arguments in favour of Papillon’s story of the Cunio,36,37.Zerlegen, a word used by German printers to denote thedistributionof the types, occurs in connection with Gutemberg’s press in 1438,128.Zuyren, J. Van, claims the invention of printing for Harlem,146.Zwecker, John B. draughtsman,599*.

Ovid’s Metamorphoses, printed at Venice, 1497,217.

Ovingham, the parsonage at,473;

the church,512.

Oxford Sausage, with wood-cuts, 1764,470.

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Packhouse’s machine for tints,584n.

Palatino, G. B. his work on Penmanship,395.

Palmer, W. J. wood-engraver,557.

Paper, proper for printing wood-cuts,646;

India paper, injurious to wood-cuts,ib.

Paper-mark in an old book of wood-cuts,107.

Paper money, early,25n.

Papillon, John, the elder,443.

Papillon, John Michael, his story of the Cunio,26;

his character,35;

notice of his works,457-467.

Parafe, or ruche,14.

Parker, Archbishop, his portrait, engraved by R. Hogenberg, 1572,422.

Parkinson’s Paradisus Terrestris,442.

Parmegiano, chiaro-scuros after his designs,403.

Pasti, Matteo, supposed to have designed the cuts in Valturius de Re Militari, 1472,186.

Patin’s Life of Holbein,372.

Patroner, the word explained,330n.

Paul of Prague, his definition of “libripagus,”182.

Pearson, G. wood engraver,573*,574*.

Pepyr, Edmund, his mark,18.

Peringskiold,14.

Petit-Jehan de Saintré, Chronicle of,41.

Petrarch’s Sonnets, Lyons, 1545, cuts in,400.

Petronius,8,15.

Pfintzing, Melchior, joint author of Sir Theurdank,282.

Pfister, Albert, works printed by, at Bamberg in 1461 and 1462,170,181.

Phillery, properly Willem, de figursnider, mistakes about a cut of his engraving,310.

Phiz (H. K. Browne), draughtsman,599*.

Piccard, T. Nieuhoff, an unknown discoverer of a painting of the Dance of Death, by Holbein,360,363.

Pickersgill, F. R. painter,599*.

Pictura, a wood-cut sometimes called,357.

Pilgrim, John Ulric, cuts ascribed to,317.

Pinkerton, John, his statement that several of the cuts in Bewick’s Quadrupeds were drawn on the block by R. Johnson,491n.

Pinx. et Scalp. not to be found on early wood-cuts,35.

Pirkheimer, Bilibald, letters written to him by Albert Durer,242;

his letter to J. Tscherte, announcing Durer’s death,273.

Pittacia, small labels,8n.

Playing cards,40.

Plebanus, a curate or vicar,61n.

Pleydenwurff, William, with M. Wolgemuth, superintends the cuts of the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1491,212.

Ploughman, Pierce, his Creed,18.

Plug, mode of inserting in an engraved wood-block,549.

Poetry, specimen of Durer’s,260;

specimens of Clennell’s, when insane,526.

Poliphili Hypnerotomachia,218,220,224.

Polo, Marco,25.

Poor Preacher’s Bible,80-94,175-179.

Portraits of Bewick, list of the principal,509.

Powis, W. H. wood engraver,544.

Prayer-book, Queen Elizabeth’s, 1569,427.

Prenters of Antwerp in 1442,121.

Press made for Gutemberg previous to 1438,127.

Press, rolling, for copper-plate printing,4.

Press, steam, wood-cuts printed by,644.

Preusch, his attempt to print maps by a typometric process,205.

Printing, Gutemberg occupied with the invention of, in 1436,127.

Printing in colours, a figure of Christ, with the date 1543,403;

Savage’s decorative printing,629;

G. Baxter’s improvements,629;

C. Knight’s patent illuminated prints and maps,630.

Printing wood-cuts, best mode of,640.

Priority of editions of the Speculum Salvationis,100.

Procession, triumphal, of Maximilian,288,289.

Procopius,13.

Proofs of wood engravings, mode of unfairly taking,466,603.

Prout, J. S. draughtsman,599*.

Psalter, printed by Faust and Scheffer in 1457,164.

Ptolemy’s Cosmography, with maps, engraved on wood, 1483,199;

an edition printed by Dominico de Lapis, at Bologna,201;

at Venice, by J. Pentius de Leucho, 1511,203.

Q

Quadrin’s Historiques de la Bible,402.

Quadrupeds, History of, with cuts, by Bewick, 1791,482-490.

Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer-book,427.

Quintilian, his notice of the manner of boys learning to write by tracing the letters through a stencil,12.

R

Raffaele, designs for the wood-cuts of the Hypnerotomachia ascribed to him,219;

a wood-cut after a drawing by, in Marcolini’s Sorti,389.

Rahmenschneiders, or border-cutters,190,319.

Raidel, his Dissertation on an edition of Ptolemy,201;

dates, erroneous in books,ib.

Raimbach, Abraham, his engraving of the Rent-day, after Sir D. Wilkie,213.

Randell, a printer’s apprentice, wood-cuts by,180.

Raynalde’s Birth of Mankind, with three copper-plate engravings, 1540,421.

Read, S. draughtsman,599*.

Rebus, or “name devises,”398.

Redgrave, R. painter,599*.

Relief, metallic, engraving in, erroneous statements about,305;

practised by Blake and others,632-636.

Rembrandt, cuts copied from etchings by,595,599,602,605.

Renaudot, l’Abbé,24.

Rent-day, engraving of a group from, after Sir D. Wilkie,593.

Repairing wood-cuts,569n.

Reperdius, George, a painter praised by Nicholas Bourbon,356.

Requeno’s Chirotipografia,44n.

Revelationes Cœlestes sanctæ Brigittæ de Suecia,321.

Reynolds, Nicholas, an English engraver on copper, 1575,420.

Reyser, George, printer of the Missale Herbipolense, 1481,202.

Roberts, David, painter,599*.

Robin Hood’s Garland, with wood-cut on the title-page, 1670,444,445.

Rocca, Angelus, mentions a Donatus on parchment,123n.

Rogers, Harry, draughtsman,599*.

Rogers, William, an English copper-plate engraver, about 1600,423.

Rolling-press,4.

Rollers, composition, not so good as composition balls for inking certain kinds of wood-cuts,650.

Roman stamps,8,10.

Rotundity, how indicated by straight lines,584.

Rouen Cathedral,611.

Rubbing down,389.

Rubens. P. P. his praise of the cuts in the Lyons Dance of Death, designed by Holbein,365;

wood engravings from his designs,438,439.

Ruche, or parafe,14.

Runic cyphers and monograms,15.

Ryther, Augustine, an English engraver on copper, 1575,420.

S

Sachs, Hans, his descriptions of cuts designed by Jost Amman,408.

Salmincio, Andrea, wood-cuts ascribed to,441.

Sandbag and block,575.

Sandrart, J. his notice of the Dance of Death, with cuts designed by Holbein,365.

Saspach, Conrad, his evidence in the Drytzehns’ suit against Gutemberg, 1438,128.

Savage, W. chiaro-scuros in his hints on Decorative Printing,629;

his opinion as to the best mode of working a form containing wood-cuts,647.

Saxton, Christopher, his collection of English County Maps, engraved on copper, 1573-1579,420.

Schapf, George, an early wood engraver,142,228.

Schäufflein, Hans, painter, generally supposed to have engraved on wood,281,283,284,285,287.

Schedel, Hartman, compiler of the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493,212.

Scheffer, Peter, a partner of Gutemberg and Faust,132;

mentioned by Faust as his servant,133;

a clerk, or copyist of books,167.

Schelhorn’s Amœnitates,113.

Schœpflin, Vindiciæ Typographicæ,125,132.

Schön, Martin,74,238.

Schön, Erhard,406.

Schonberg, Mr. his attempts to engrave in metallic relief,634.

Schönsperger, Hans, the printer of Sir Theurdank,282.

Schopper, Hartman, verses by, in a book of trades and professions,409.

Schoting of Nuremberg, a cut thus inscribed, the date 1584, mistaken for 1384,59.

Schultheis, Hans, his evidence in the Drytzehns’ suit against Gutemberg, 1438,127.

Schussler, John, a printer of Augsburg,180.

Schwartz, J. G. Documenta de Origine Typographiæ,124,133,134,142.

Scopoli, mistakes Mr. B. White’s sign for the name of his partner,313.

Scott, T. D. draughtsman,599*.

Scrive, a tool to mark timber with,2.

Scrivener and Greffier,2n.

Scriverius, his account of Coster’s invention,151n.

Seals, engraved,20.

Sebastian, St. account of an old wood-cut of,55.

Selous, H. C. painter,599*.

Shade for the eyes,575.

Shaw, Henry, draughtsman,599*.

Shields of arms in the block-book called The Apocalypse,65;

in the History of the Virgin,75,76,77,78.

Sichem, Cornelius van, wood engraver,439.

Silberrad, Dr. old wood-cuts in the possession of,227.

Simulachres et Historiées Faces de la Mort, Lyons, 1538,328.

Singer’s Researches on the History of Playing Cards,9;

his unacknowledged obligations to Breitkopf,10.

Skelton, Percival,550,569*.

Skippe, John, chiaro-scuros engraved by,628.

Slader, Samuel, wood engraver,544.

Sly, Stephen, his experiments in metallic relief,636.

Smith, John Orrin, wood engraver,544.

Smith, Orrin. wood engraver,580*.

Smyth, F. G. wood-engraver,600*.

Snuff-box, George the Fourth’s, with designs, by Flaxman,590.

Solis, Virgil,406.

Solomon, song of, illustrations,71,72.

Solomon, A. painter,599*.

Solomon, Bernard, of Lyons,398-401,407.

Somervile’s Chase, with cuts, designed by John Bewick,513.

Sonetto figurato,395-397.

Sorg, Anthony, of Augsburg, account of the Council of Constance, with wood-cuts, printed by him in 1483,189.

Sorti, Marcolini’s, a work containing wood-cuts,389-393.

Southey, Robert, his notice of two odes by Lloyd and Colman, with wood-cuts,470.

Spanish marks,15.

Specklin, D. mentions wooden types,131.

Speculum Nostræ Salutis,149.

Speculum Salvationis, a misnamed block-book,95-106;

cuts from,96,97,98.

Speed’s History of Britain,442.

Sporer, Hans, an old briefmaler,43.

Springinklee, Hans,287,320.

Stabius, J. his description of the triumphal arch of Maximilian,256.

Stamham, Melchior de, Abbot of St. Ulric and Afra, at Augsburg, printing-presses bought by him,165n.

Stampien, to stamp with the foot as a fiddler beats time, mistaken for printing,120.

Stamping of letters in manuscripts,44.

Stampilla,14.

Stamps, Roman,8;

notarial,17.

Stanfield, Clarkson, R.A.570*.

Steiner, J. M. his notice of a book printed at Bamberg in 1462,170.

Stencilling,12,40n.

Stephenson, James, draughtsman,599*.

Stereotype, early,418;

modern,636.

Stigmata,12.

Stimmer, Christopher, and Tobias,413.

Stocks, Lumb, draughtsman,599*.

Stoke-field, knights and bannerets created after the battle of,191.

Stonehouse, artist,591*.

Stothard, Thomas, R.A. his Illustrations of Rogers’s Poems, 1812, engraved on wood,524.

Strephon’s Revenge, 1724, copy of a tail-piece in,453.

Sueur, le, Peter and Vincent,443;

Nicholas,467.

Sulman, T. draughtsman,599*.

Swain, John, wood engraver,579*,581*.

Swain, Joseph, wood-engraver,600*.

Swedish coins,15.

Sweynheim, Conrad, printer, the first that devised maps engraved on copper,200.

Switzer, cuts engraved by,442.

Sylvius, Æneas, his account of the Barnacle or Tree goose,415.

T

Tail-pieces in Bewick’s Quadrupeds,486.

Tell, William,416,417.

Temple, W. W. a pupil of Bewick,527.

Tenniel, John, artist,559,560.

Terms, abstract, derived from names expressive of tangible and visible things,214.

Terra-cottas, called Typi,7.

Testament, Figures du Nouveau,402.

Theodoric, his monogram,13.

Ther-Hoernen, Arnold, prints at Cologne an edition of the Fasciculus Temporum, with wood-cuts, 1474,190.

Theurdank, the Adventures of, an allegorical poem, by the Emperor Maximilian and his Secretary,281;

the text erroneously supposed to have been engraved on wood,283.

Thomas, G. H. artist,565*-567*.

Thomas, W. L. wood engraver,565*,568*.

Thompson, Charles, wood engraver,541n.

Thompson, Eliza, wood engraver,541n.

Thompson, John, wood engraver, a pupil of R. Branston, notice of some of his principal cuts,541,569*.

Thurston, John, designer on wood,519n.

Tindale, William, cuts in his translation of the New Testament, 1534,383-385.

Tinsel money,16.

Tints, mode of cutting,577-581.

Tint-tools,577.

Titian, wood-cuts after,433,435.

Tools, wood engravers’,576-530.

Topham, F. W. draughtsman,599*.

Topsell’s History of Four-footed Beasts,442.

Tract printed by A. Pfister, at Bamberg, 1461, 1462,170,181.

Transferring old impressions of wood-cuts,104n;

old wood-cuts and copper-plates,637.

Travelling printers,184.

Tree goose,414.

Treitzsaurwein. M. Secretary to the Emperor Maximilian, nominal author of the Weiss Kunig,286.

Treschel, Melchior and Gaspar, printers of the Lyons Dance of Death, 1538, with cuts, designed by Hans Holbein,330.

Trimming,606.

Triompho di Fortuna,315-317.

Trithemius, his account of the invention of printing,131.

Triumphal procession, usually called the Triumphs of Maximilian,288-304.

Trusler, Dr. his Progress of Man and Society, with cuts, by John Bewick,613.

Turner, Dr. William, his account of the Tree goose,414.

Turner, the Rev. William, his opinion of cross-hatching,562.

Turrecremata, J. de, his Meditationes,184.

Typi,7.

Typography, invention of,118;

not a chance discovery,145.

U

Ulphilas, Gospels of,44.

Underlaying wood-cuts, mode of,645n.

Unger, father and son, German wood engravers, 1779,403,483,545.

Urse Graff, a cut designed by, probably copied by Willem de Figuersnider,313;

other cuts with his mark,314.

V

Vagabonds and sturdy beggars,12.

Valcebro, Ferrer de, his notice of the Bernacle or Tree goose,416.

Valturius, R. de Re Militari,186.

Vasari, George, claims the invention of chiaro-scuro engraving for Ugo da Cai,230.

Vasey, George, wood engraver,544.

Vaugris, V. printer of a piracy of the Lyons Dance of Death, at Venice, 1542,393.

Vecellio, Cesare, his book of Costumes, Venice, 1589,433.

Vegetable putties, a theory of Mr. J. Landseer,72.

Veldener, John, printer of an edition of the Speculum Salvationis, 1483,106;

one of the earliest printers who introduced ornamental borders engraved on wood,191.

Venice, foreign cards prohibited to be brought into the city of, 1441,43.

Verona, Johannes de,186.

Vesalius’s Anatomy, Basle, 1548, erroneously said to contain cuts designed by Titian,433.

Vignettes,615.

Vincentini, J. N. engraver of chiaro-scuros,389.

Vizetelly, H. wood engraver,558,570*,571*.

Vostre, Simon, Heures printed by him,232.

W

Waagen, Dr. G. F. extract from his evidence before the Committee on Arts and Manufactures,322.

Walsokne, Adam de, his mark,18.

Walton’s Angler, cuts of fish in Major’s edition of,541,543.

Wand-Kalendars, or sheet almanacks, 1470, 1500,225.

Ward, James, R.A. cut of a dray-horse from a drawing by,596.

Warren, H. painter,599*.

Watson. J. D. draughtsman,599*.

Watts, S. his engravings, 1703,471.

Waved lines,583.

Webster, T. painter,599*.

Wehnert, G. H. artist,594*.

Weir, Harrison, artist,551,555.

Weiss-Kunig,286.

West, Benjamin, his design for the diploma of the Highland Society,523.

Wethemstede, John, prior of St. Albans,111.

White, Henry, senior and junior, wood engravers,544.

White outline,587,598.

Whitehall, fictions about a Dance of Death painted by Holbein in the old palace at,360-363.

Whiting, Chas. his colour-printing,630.

Whymper, J. W. wood engraver,544,569*.

Wilkie, Sir David, R.A. his sketch for his picture of the Rabbit on the Wall,591;

group from his Rent-day,593;

from his Village Festival,614.

Willett, R. his opinion of wooden types,136.

Williams, J. wood engraver,588*.

Williams, Samuel, artist and wood engraver,544,572*.

Williams, Thomas, wood engraver,544,547.

Willis, Edward, a pupil of Bewick,522n.

Wimperis, E. wood-engraver,600*.

Wimpheling, verses by him, celebrating Gutemberg as the inventor of printing,155.

Wirtemberg, Counts of, their arms,78.

Wolf, J. artist,573*,574*.

Wolgemuth, Michael, not the first that introduced cross-hatching in wood engravings,239.

Women, engravers on wood,235.

Wood for the purposes of engraving, several kinds mentioned by Papillou,464;

mode of preparing,562-568.

Wood-cut, the earliest known with a date,45.

Wood-cuts, largest modern; directions for cleaning,649.

Wood engravers, early, unfriendly to the progress of typography,179.

Wooden types,131,136,137.

Woods, H. N. wood-engraver,600*.

Wootie, Mr. his patent for engraving in metallic relief,634.

Worde. W. de, cuts in books printed by him,196,198.

Wordsworth, William, his high opinion of Bewick’s talents,512.

Wright, John, wood engraver,544.

Wright, W. wood engraver,554.

Wyatt, Sir Thomas, a wood-cut portrait of, from a drawing, by Holbein,379.

Wyburd, F. painter,599*.

Z

Zainner, Gunther, of Augsburg,179;

the Legenda Aurea, with wood-cuts, printed by him, in 1471,188.

Zainer, John, of Reutlingen, prints at Ulm in 1473, an edition of Boccacio de Claris Mulieribus, with wood-cuts,190.

Zani’s arguments in favour of Papillon’s story of the Cunio,36,37.

Zerlegen, a word used by German printers to denote thedistributionof the types, occurs in connection with Gutemberg’s press in 1438,128.

Zuyren, J. Van, claims the invention of printing for Harlem,146.

Zwecker, John B. draughtsman,599*.


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