CHAPTER IV.
WOOD ENGRAVING IN CONNEXION WITH THE PRESS.

Faust and scheffer’s psalter of 1457—printing at bamberg in 1461—books containing wood-cuts printed there by albert pfister—opposition of the wood engravers of augsburg to the earliest printers established in that city—travelling printers—wood-cuts in “meditationes johannis de turre-cremata,” rome, 1467; and in “valturius de re militari,” verona, 1472—wood-cuts frequent in books printed at augsburg between 1474 and 1480—wood-cuts in books printed by caxton—maps engraved on wood, 1482—progress of map engraving—cross-hatching—flowered borders—hortus sanitatis—nuremberg chronicle—wood engraving in italy—poliphili hypnerotomachia—decline of block-printing—old wood-cuts in derschau’s collection.