A Brief History of Wood-engraving/Index

The Engravings in this book are referred to in italic type


 * Abbreviations of Latin words, 18
 * Æsop's Fables (1481), 47
 * Æsop's Fables (Bewick's), 115
 * Aldegrever, 88
 * Aldus Manutius, 45-47
 * Alphabet, Figure, XV Cent., 25
 * Altdorfer, Albrecht, 87, 100
 * Amman, Jost, 88
 * Anderson, John, 122
 * Andre, Jerome, 82
 * Andreani, Andrea, 99
 * Annunciation, The, 8
 * Apocalypse, Dürer's, 70
 * Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis, 17
 * Ars Memorandi, 11, 26
 * Ars Moriendi, 11, 20, 26


 * Battista del Porta, 99
 * Beham, Hans, 87
 * Beilby, Ralph, 108,112
 * Berners, Dame Juliana, 66
 * Bewick, John, 116
 * Bewick, Robert, 117
 * Bewick, Thomas, 108-115
 * Bible Cuts, Holbein's, 86, 87
 * Biblia Pauperum, 12-16
 * Bibliomaniac, The, 38
 * Block Books of the XV Cent., 11
 * Blossoms of Morality, 116
 * Boldrini, Nicolo, 99
 * Bolton, Thomas, 126
 * Bonner, George, 82, 102
 * Booke of Christian Prayers (Q. Elizabeth), 100
 * Book of Fables (Pfister, 1461), 36
 * Book of Hours, 55
 * Book of St. Albans, 66
 * Borluyt's Figures from New Testament, 96, 97
 * Bourbon, Nicolas, 93
 * Brandt's Navis Stultifera, 38
 * Branston, Robert, 123
 * Breydenbach's Travels, 35, 37
 * British Birds, History of (Bewick), 110-115
 * British Quadrupeds, History of (Bewick), 111, 112
 * Brosamer, Hans, 88
 * Bürkner (German engraver), 127
 * Bullen, Mr. George, 20
 * Burgkmair, Hans, 69-80
 * Byfield, John and Mary, 82, 125


 * Caillaut, Antoine, 60
 * Canterbury Tales, The, 66
 * Canticum Canticorum, 11, 23
 * Casus Luciferi, 30
 * Caxton, William, 62
 * Chatto, W. A., 1, 4, 66, 118
 * Chiar-oscuro, Printing in, 50, 99
 * Chillingham Bull (Bewick), 111
 * Christopher, Saint, 6
 * Clennell, Luke, 118-121
 * Cole, Mr. Henry, 73
 * Cole, Timothy, 128
 * Colines, Simon de, Heures de, 92
 * Cologne Bible, 33, 36
 * Colonna, Francesco, 42
 * Colour Printing in Germany (XVI Cent.), 100
 * Conway, W. M. (Woodcutters of the Netherlands), 98
 * Copperplate-Engraving introduced, 98
 * Coriolano, Bartolommeo, 99
 * Cranach, Lucas, 69, 88, 100
 * Croxall's Æsop, 106, 111
 * Cuningham's Cosmographical Glasse, 102
 * Curio, Valentine, 81


 * Dance of Death (1485), 59
 * Dance of Death (Holbein's), 81-85
 * Daye, John (Printer), 101-104
 * Death of the Virgin (Missal), 54
 * Decameron, The (1492), 48
 * Dentatus, Death of (engraved by W. Harvey), 121
 * Dibdin's, Dr., Works, 1
 * Dienecker (Engraver), 78
 * Diploma of Highland Society (Clennell), 120
 * Douce, Francis, 82
 * Duplessis, M. Georges, 4
 * Dupré, Jean, 55, 60
 * Dürer, Albrecht, 69
 * —— Apocalypse, 70
 * —— Engravings on Copper, 71
 * —— Life of the Virgin, 71
 * —— Passion of Our Lord, 71
 * —— 'Smaller' Passion, 71, 73
 * —— Virgin crowned by Angels, 72


 * Elizabetha Regina (1569), 103
 * Elizabeth's, Queen, Prayer Book, 102
 * Emblems of Mortality (1789), 116
 * Estienne, Robert, 93


 * Figure Alphabet, The, 24
 * Flight into Egypt (Jegher's), 105
 * Foster, Birket, Drawing by, 126
 * Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 100
 * Froben, Johann, 81
 * Froschover, Christoph, 81
 * Fyshynge with an Angle (1496), 67


 * Gaber (German Engraver), 127
 * Game and Playe of the Chesse (Caxton's), 62, 64
 * German Engravers, 127
 * Gray, Charles, 125
 * Green, W. T. (Engraver), 125
 * Greenaway, J., 125
 * Gutenberg's Psalter, 34


 * Harvey, William, 115, 121
 * Heinecken, Herr, 4, 10
 * Henry VIII in Council, frontispiece
 * Heures à l'usaige de Chartres, 52
 * History of British Birds (Bewick), 110-114
 * History of Quadrupeds (Bewick), 111, 112
 * Holbein, Hans, 69, 81-87
 * —— Alphabet of Dance of Death, 87
 * —— Bible Cuts (Old Testament), 86, 87
 * —— Dance of Death, 82-84
 * —— Society, 20, 21
 * Holinshed's 'Chronicles of England,' &c., 100
 * Humphreys, Noel, 55
 * Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1494), 42-44


 * Illuminated Books of XV Century, 53
 * Images of Saints, 2


 * Jackson, John, 122
 * Jegher, Christoph, of Antwerp, 104
 * Jewitt, Orlando, 125
 * Johnson, Robert, 115
 * Jovius, Paulus, 95
 * Jungtow, 127


 * Kalendario (Venice, 1476), 41
 * Kerver, Thielman, 53, 58, 59
 * King's Banquet, The, 58
 * Kirkall, Elisha (1724), 106
 * Knight, Charles, 122


 * Landells, Ebenezer, 122
 * Le Noir (Printers' mark), 60
 * Le Rouge, 53
 * Linton, W. J., 1, 5, 106
 * Lippmann, Dr., 1
 * Little Masters, The, 87
 * Livres d'Heures, 57
 * Looking-glass for the Mind, 116, 117
 * Lützelburger, Hans, 81, 87


 * Macault reading his Translation, 94
 * Macé, Robert, of Caen, 96
 * Mansion, Colard, of Bruges, 62
 * Manuzio, Aldo, 45, 46
 * Marchant, Guyot, 53, 59
 * Maximilian, Emperor, 69, 74-80
 * Mazarine Bible, 30
 * Mer des Histoires, La, 53
 * Milan, Lives of Dukes of, 95
 * Metal Blocks, 51
 * Mirrour of the World (1478), 63
 * Morris, William, 53, 128
 * Mulready: Vicar of Wakefield, 125


 * Nanto, Francesco da, 99
 * Navis Stultifera (1497), 38
 * Nesbit, Charlton, 116, 118
 * Notary, Julian, 68
 * Nürnberg Chronicle, 36


 * Palmer, W. J., 126
 * Papillon, J. M. (French Engraver), 107
 * Passion of our Lord (Missal), 56
 * Petit, Jehan, 60
 * Pigouchet, Philippe, 55
 * Plantin, Christophe, Antwerp, 96
 * Playing Cards, 2
 * Porta, Giuseppe, 90, 91
 * Porto, Battista del, 99
 * Powis, W. H. (Engraver), 125
 * Printers' marks, 60
 * —— Kerver's, 59
 * —— Le Noir's, 60
 * —— Plantin's, 98
 * —— Pynson's, 68
 * —— Tory's, Geoffroy, 91
 * —— Wynkyn de Worde's, 65
 * Psalter, Gutenberg's, 34
 * Pynson, Richard, 66


 * Recueil des Histoires de Troye, 62


 * Saint Bridget of Sweden, 9
 * Saint Christopher, 6
 * Saint Sebastian, 9
 * Salomon, Bernhard (Petit Bernhard), 95
 * Schaufelein, Hans, 74
 * Schongauer, Martin, 56, 57
 * Scolari, Giuseppe, 99
 * Select Fables (Bewick), 111
 * Sessa Brothers, of Venice, 100
 * Slader, Samuel, 125
 * Smith, J. Orrin, 125
 * Somerville's Chase, 117
 * Sorti di Marcolini (1540), 90, 91
 * Speculum Salvationis, 11, 29


 * Terence (Lyons, 1493), 49
 * Theuredank, Adventures of, 74
 * Thompson, John, 119, 123, 124
 * Thurston, John, 118
 * Tory, Geoffroy, 91, 92, 94, 95
 * Tournes, Jean de, 95, 96
 * Trento, Antonio da, 99
 * Tristan, Romance of, 58
 * Triumphs of Maximilian, 74-80
 * —— Triumphal Arch (Dürer), 75, 76
 * —— Triumphal Car (Dürer), 77
 * —— Triumphal Procession (Burgkmair), 78, 79
 * Triumphal entry of Henri II into Lyons, 95
 * Triumphal entry of Henri II into Paris, 95
 * Triumphi del Petrarca (1488), 41, 47


 * Ugo da Carpi, 99


 * Vecellio, Cesare, 100
 * Verard, Antoine, 53, 57
 * Virgil Solis, 88
 * Virgin with four Saints (1418), 3
 * Vostre, Simon, 53, 55


 * Werskunig, 74
 * Williams, Samuel, 125
 * Willshire, Dr., 2, 55
 * Woodbery, Mr., 32
 * Wood-Engraver, The, x
 * Wood Engravers (Living), 126
 * Wynkyn de Worde, 65