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![[picture: Book cover, Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-350x500.jpg "[picture: Book cover, Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.)]")
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.
Title: Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.)
Published by: Verlag von G. Hirth
City: Leipzig
Date: 1878
Total items: 40
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Foliated chapter-head with geometric border]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/wm/big/000-i-indexchapter-head-q80-412x200.jpg "[picture: Foliated chapter-head with geometric border]")
Foliated chapter-head with geometric border
An Egyptian-inspired geometric border containing a fleur-de-lys in a circle between two vine branches. It was at the head of the first index page. The border style was popular in the nineteenth century, and the [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: captions for plates 57--64]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/wm/big/p068-captions-57-to-64-q75-137x200.jpg "[picture: captions for plates 57--64]")
![[picture: Title Page]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/wm/big/000-title-page-q90-140x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page]")
The title page has been printed in two colours, and includes an ornate decorative border, which I also made available as separate images in green-brown (most like the original), black (easiest to re-use) and red (because people seem to like red pictures the best). [more...] [$]
![[picture: Chapter head: cherubs playing games]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/wm/big/000-i-contents-chapter-head-q80-725x200.jpg "[picture: Chapter head: cherubs playing games]")
Chapter head: cherubs playing games
Cherubs playing games with hoops and a spear or arrow, in a chain-link border. Used as a page decoration at the start of the foreword of the book. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 62t.---Initial capital letter ``T'' from Dance of Death Alphabet.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/wm/big/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-t-q75-195x200.jpg "[picture: 62t.---Initial capital letter ``T'' from Dance of Death Alphabet.]")
62t.—Initial capital letter “T” from Dance of Death Alphabet.
This decorative initial letter “T”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. The skeleton figures in the alphabet represent death. The letter features a minstrel with his pipe, lying prostrate on the ground, and being dragged away by one Death, whilst another pours [...] [more...] [$]
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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