Early Venetian Printing Illustrated. (Nimmo.) — This is a pub- lication from
the Venetian house of Ongania. It contains some two hundred pages of reproductions of famous examples of the early art of printing and book-decoration at Venice. It will be found a most delightful book by all who wish to have a com- pendious collection of specimens of types and the treatment of the page in that great school.—A book which covers much wider ground in the same field of the study of the forms of lettering, is Mr. E. F. Strange's Alphabets, described as a "Handbook of Lettering, with Historical, Critical, and Practical Descriptions." (Bell and Sons.)—Mr. Strange is strongest on the side of his- torical knowledge, his taste in modern type is not so sure ; but if the student looks to the book for facts and specimens rather than direction, he will find it a most useful compendium of in- formation and illustration.
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