13 OCTOBER 1917, Page 22

Early Illustrated Books. By Alfred W. Pollard. (Kogan Paul. 3s.

6d. net.)—Mr. Pollard's admirable essay on the illustrated books of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries has after twenty-four years reached a second and cheaper edition. If in the interval a good deal has been added to our knowledge of a fascinating subject, it is in no small degree due to the initiative of Mr. Pollard himself and his colleagues in the Bibliographical Society. The illustrations include of course a cut from the Dream of Poliphilus and several from the delectable French Books of Hoare.