420
BOOKS PRINTED BY [Bochas; 1494.
The first wood-cut, to the first book, is exceedingly coarse ; as will
appear frona the fac-simile of it in the Typog. Antiq. vol. i. p. xi: see
also p. 405. The remaining cuts represent the human figure on a
smaller scale; and in the 2nd and 3rd cuts we immediately recognise
the same style of art. The 3rd cut, being rather ’curious, shall speak
for itself in the ensuing fac-simile :
On examining the contents however of this third book, it is not easy
to discover to what subject this embellishment relates. The 4th cut
represents Marcus Manlius, with his hands tied behind him, ‘ caste into
BOOKS PRINTED BY [Bochas; 1494.
The first wood-cut, to the first book, is exceedingly coarse ; as will
appear frona the fac-simile of it in the Typog. Antiq. vol. i. p. xi: see
also p. 405. The remaining cuts represent the human figure on a
smaller scale; and in the 2nd and 3rd cuts we immediately recognise
the same style of art. The 3rd cut, being rather ’curious, shall speak
for itself in the ensuing fac-simile :
On examining the contents however of this third book, it is not easy
to discover to what subject this embellishment relates. The 4th cut
represents Marcus Manlius, with his hands tied behind him, ‘ caste into