# A Brief History of Wood-engraving

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HENRY VIII. IN COUNCIL (From Holinshed's 'Chronicles of England,' 1577) Page 100
A BRIEF HISTORY
OF
WOOD-ENGRAVING
FROM ITS INVENTION
BY
JOSEPH CUNDALL
AUTHOR OF 'HOLBEIN AND HIS WORKS' ETC.
LONDON SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, & COMPANY LIMITED St. Dunstan's House FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C. 1895
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I :
| PAGE ||
| On Pictures of Saints—The print of The Virgin with the Holy Child in her Lap in the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique—On the print of St. Christopher in the Spencer Library at Manchester—The Annunciation and the St. Bridget of Sweden | 1 |
| CHAPTER II ||
| On the Block Books of the Fifteenth Century—Biblia Pauperum; Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis, &c. | 11 |
| CHAPTER III ||
| The Block Books of the Fifteenth Century—Ars Moriendi—Temptacio Diaboli—Canticum Canticorum, and others | 20 |
| CHAPTER IV ||
| Block Book—Speculum Humanae Salvationis—Casus Luciferi—The Mentz Psalter of 1459—Book of Fables—The Cologne Bible—Nürnberg Chronicle—Breydenbach's Travels | 28 |
| CHAPTER V ||
| On Wood-Engraving in Italy in the Fifteenth Century—The Venice Kalendario of 1476—The Triumph of Petrarch—The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili—Aldo Manuzio—Portrait of Aldus | 40 |
| CHAPTER VI ||
| On Wood-Engraving in France in the Fifteenth Century—Engraving on Metal Blocks—'Books of Hours'—Famous French Publishers: Pierre Le Rouge, Simon Vostre, Antoine Verard, Thielman Kerver, Guyot Marchant, Philippe Pigouchet, Jean Dupré, and others | 51 |
| CHAPTER VII ||
| Wood-Engraving in England in the Fifteenth Century—William Caxton, Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye—Dictes and Sayings of Philosophers—Game and Playe of the Chesse, &c.—Wynkyn de Worde—Richard Pynson | 61 |
| CHAPTER VIII ||
| Wood-Engraving in Germany in the Sixteenth Century—Albrecht Dürer—Coronation of the Virgin—The Apocalypse—The Little Passion—His Engravings on Copper—The Triumphs of Maximilian—The Triumphal Arch—The Triumphal Car—The Triumphal Procession | 69 |
| CHAPTER IX ||
| Hans Holbein—Dance of Death—Bible Cuts—Hans Lützelburger—Dance of Death Alphabet—The Little Masters—Altdorfer—Beham—Brosamer—Aldegrever—Cranach | 81 |
| CHAPTER X ||
| Wood-Engraving in Italy and France in the Sixteenth Century—Giuseppe Porta of Venice—Geoffroy Tory and Robert Estienne of Paris—Borluyt's Figures from the New Testament—Christophe Plantin of Antwerp | 89 |
| CHAPTER XI ||
| Wood-Engraving in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in Italy and England—Printing in Chiaro-oscuro in Venice—Printing in Colour in Germany—Habiti Antichi e Moderni by Vecellio—Wood-Engraving in England—Foxe's Acts and Monuments—Holinshed's Chronicles—A Booke of Christian Prayers—Dr. Cuningham's Cosmographical Glasse—Æsop's Fables—The French engraver Papillon | 99 |
| CHAPTER XII ||
| Thomas Bewick and his Pupils—Select Fables—History of Quadrupeds—History of British Birds—Æsop's Fables—Prices at which these books were published—Death of Bewick | 108 |
| CHAPTER XIII ||
| Bewick's Successors—John Bewick (his Brother)—Looking-glass for the Mind—Goldsmith's Poems—Somerville's Chase—Robert Johnson—Charlton Nesbit—Robert Elliot R. Bewick—History of Fishes—Luke Clennell—William Harvey—George Bonner—W. H. Powis—John Jackson—Ebenezer Landells—Robert Branston—F. W. Branston—John Thompson—J. Orrin Smith—John and Mary Byfield—Samuel Williams—W. T. Green—O. Jewitt—C. Gray—S. Slader—J. Greenaway—W. J. Palmer—German Engravers—Modern English Engravers | 116 |
| Index | 129 |
THE WOOD-ENGRAVER By Jost Amman (1568)