![[picture: Book cover, Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.)]](http://www.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: 37
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.
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![[picture: 62w.---Initial capital letter ``W'' from Dance of Death Alphabet.]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-w-q75-496x500.jpg "[picture: 62w.---Initial capital letter ``W'' from Dance of Death Alphabet.]")
![[picture: 62h.---Initial capital letter ``H'' from Dance of Death Alphabet.]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-h-q75-495x500.jpg "[picture: 62h.---Initial capital letter ``H'' from Dance of Death Alphabet.]")
![[picture: Fantasy Romantic Border with Eros, Cherubs and Mermaids]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/023-fantasy-romantic-border-q83-337x500.jpg "[picture: Fantasy Romantic Border with Eros, Cherubs and Mermaids]")
![[picture: Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (green/brown version)]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/000-title-page-border-green-brown-q75-365x500.jpg "[picture: Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (green/brown version)]")
![[picture: Title Page]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/000-title-page-q90-349x500.jpg "[picture: Title Page]")
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