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sighted this go-a-head country.

Four years later saw the
birth of a ponderous tome, of
large page, and showy in
the remains of brass bosses
and mountings, that imply
it was once chained to the
bookrack over some monastic
or church reading desk. It is a Decretal
of Pope Gregory, with Bernhardi's
gloss, in gothic letter & painted
capitals, with a coloured
miniature portrait of the Pope. Another
small quarto Decretal, wholly
printed, but brilliantly - in red
and black, with many expressive
wood-cuts, is from the press
of Venice in 1514, and has
in it the book plate of Dr G.
Klok of Francofurt.

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