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Pictures from The Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges by William Blades (1824 – 1890), Typographer, Chicago, 1891; I have added the captions.
Title: Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges
Published by: A.C.M. McCLVRG & Co.
City: Chicago
Date: 1891
Total items: 21
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
Two learned robed, bearded and barefoot gentlemen converse, books in their lap. The smoke-filled scene is lit by a single flame. [$]
Anatomically correct cherubs carrying books through the undergrowth. [$]
Floriated fruit-bowl ornament, coloured
This woodcut design was used as a decorative ornament on the title page of the Life of William Caxton edited by John Lewis. I have coloured it with vintage pastels. [more...] [$]
Title page from Lewis’ Life of William Caxton
The Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton, of the Weald of Kent; the First Printer in England. [more...] [$]
A naughty cherub makes handprints on everything, including his naked companion [$]
Pictures from The Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges by William Blades (1824 – 1890), Typographer, Chicago, 1891; I have added the captions.
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