  FLORENTINE RAPPRESENTAZIONI AND THEIR PICTURES [1] TWO ILLUSTRATED ITALIAN BIBLES [2] THE TRANSFERENCE OF WOODCUTS IN THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES [5] ENGLISH BOOKS PRINTED ABROAD [11] SOME PICTORIAL AND HERALDIC INITIALS [13] ENGLAND AND THE BOOKISH ARTS [16] THE FIRST ENGLISH BOOK SALE [18] JOHN DURIE'S 'REFORMED LIBRARIE-KEEPER' [19] WOODCUTS IN ENGLISH PLAYS PRINTED BEFORE 1660 [20] PRINTERS' MARKS OF THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES [25] THE FRANKS COLLECTION OF ARMORIAL BOOK-STAMPS [27] WITH OTHER ESSAYS ON ALFRED W. POLLARD leaf LONDON: METHUEN AND CO To JOHN MACFARLANE, My dear Macfarlane,— Just as you had completed a valuable monograph on that enterprising French publisher Antoine VÈrard, you were whirled away to India to organise a great library at Calcutta. I have seen it stated in the newspapers, on high authority, that your Imperial Library is to be a second British Museum, but I am afraid that, even when fully developed by your energy and skill, it will contain no VÈrards. I hope, however, that when you come over on furlough you will resume the pleasant studies we used to pursue together, and that you may even be induced to read another paper before the learned Society of which you were once my fellow secretary. To keep alive your interest in old books is thus a reasonable pretext for dedicating to you these bookish essays. My real hope is that as they stand on your book-shelf they may remind you of the original British Museum and of the many friends you left behind here after your seventeen years' work amid our Bloomsbury fogs. Faithfully yours,
Alfred W. Pollard |
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