![[picture: Book cover, Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.)]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-350x500.jpg "[picture: Book cover, Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.)]")
Title: Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.)
Published by: Verlag von G. Hirth
City: Leipzig
Date: 1878
Total items: 29
Engravings from “Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance” (Book-Ornament of the Renaissance) by A. F. Butsch, Leipzig, 1878. Alfred Butsch was a famous bookseller and a collecter of antiquarian books; the engraved plates in the book reproduce illustrations from early printed books.
I bought my copy of this book (actually Volume II hasn’t arrive yet!) from a bookseller in Germany; there is also a fac simile by Dover, but the reproduction is not of the highest quality, so these images are better, if very incomplete.
I also have Volume II.
![[picture: 62c.---Initial capital letter ``C'' from Dance of Death Alphabet]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-c-q75-500x496.jpg "[picture: 62c.---Initial capital letter ``C'' from Dance of Death Alphabet]")
![[picture: 62n.---Initial capital letter ``N'' from Dance of Death Alphabet.]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-n-q87-500x496.jpg "[picture: 62n.---Initial capital letter ``N'' from Dance of Death Alphabet.]")
![[picture: 62k.---Initial capital letter ``K'' from Dance of Death Alphabet.]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-k-q90-493x500.jpg "[picture: 62k.---Initial capital letter ``K'' from Dance of Death Alphabet.]")
![[picture: 62z.---Initial capital letter ``Z'' from Dance of Death Alphabet.]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-z-q80-496x500.jpg "[picture: 62z.---Initial capital letter ``Z'' from Dance of Death Alphabet.]")
![[picture: Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (black version)]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/000-title-page-border-q90-365x500.jpg "[picture: Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (black version)]")
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