[Gutenberg 46241] • Some Notes on Early Woodcut Books, with a Chapter on Illuminated Manuscripts

Excerpt from Some Notes on Early Woodcut Books: With a Chapter on Illuminated Manuscripts

Gunther Zainer's German Bible of c. 1474 has a full set of pictured letters, one to every book, of very remarkable merit: the foliated forms which make the letters and en close the figures being bold, inventive, and very well drawn. I note that these excellent designs have received much less attention than they deserve.

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