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doubtedly Part IV, which deals with indi-
vidual Argentine literary figures. With the 
exception of the authors mentioned in the 
preface, all rna jor figures as well as many 
"minor" authors are included. Under the 
name of each author are listed all relevant 
works about the author and his works. 
From the librarian's viewpoint, an outstand-
ing aspect of this part of the book is the 
references whose bibliographical accurate-
ness and briefness add a quality of excel-
lence to the entries.-Antonio Rodriquez-
Buckingham, Harvard University. 

The History of Book Illustration: The n-
luminated Manuscript and the Printed 
Book. David Bland. 2d rev. ed. Berkeley 
and Los Angeles: University of Califor-
nia Press, 1969. 459p. $25.00. 
The first edition of this book, published 

in 1958, reviewed the history of book illus-
tration, by all techniques, from ancient 
Egypt until the 1950s. The second edition 
is largely a reprint of the first, although 
four new color plates have been added, the 
total amount of numbered illustrations in-
creased from 395 to 412, the text updated 
and corrected in details, and some addi-
tions made to include more about Eastern 
Europe and the Orient. Throughout most 
of the book, the text and illustrations in the 
text have been reproduced without change 
by photolithographic offset. The original 
half-tone blocks seem to have been used to 
reproduce the original black and white 
plates by letterpress. 

In reprinting the original color plates, the 
printer of the second revised edition appar-
ently did not have the use of the progres-
sive proofs used to control color in the first 
edition. In every case, the color tones are 
slightly different, with red and yellow gen-
erally more predominant in the first edition 
plates, black in the second. Both editions, 
however, are well printed in good register. 
Which of the reproductions is more faithful 
to any given original could be judged only 
by comparison with the original. The black 
and white illustrations in the text appear 
brighter in the second edition, largely be-
cause the paper is whiter. How much this 
difference in paper tone can be attributed 
to a change in printing fashions and how 
much to pape! deterioration is hard to 
judge. 

Recent Publications I 65 

The major changes in text occur in the 
last thirty pages of the new edition, but 
some revisions occur throughout. In chap-
ter 7, "The Nineteenth Century," revisions 
include the addition of a color plate for 
Henry Noel Humphreys and added exam-
ples of English, American, German, and 
Russian illustrations, all inserted so as to 
disturb as little as possible the original 
printing formes. Some errors in dating were 
corrected, but the revision was not always 
completed. On page 254 the date for an 
edition of William Somerville's H obbinol 
is corrected in the text but left uncorrected 
in the legend of the illustration appearing 
on the same page. 

In other places, the insertion of new text 
fails to adapt to the old. On page 428 of 
the new edition, a subheading used on page 
424 of the first edition, "Poland and Rus-
sia," is changed to "Poland and The Bal-
kans" to allow for two paragraphs on the 
Balkans and a sepamte subheading for Rus-
sia alone. The text under the new heading, 
however, continues undisturbed: "Both 
these countries excel in two types of illus-
tration." Which both? 

In common with most historians of book 
illustration, Bland inadequately cites the 
printed books that contain his examples. 
One could give many instances, but "Vega: 
Flos Sanctorum, c. 1521" (Fig. 162), with-
out any further elaboration of the author's 
name in text or index will send the search-
er on a merry chase. 

The first edition was a unique contribu-
tion to the history of book illustration. The 
second edition, though not greatly nor al-
ways carefully revised, is an improvement 
on the first.-Howard W. Winger, Univer-
sity of Chicago. 

National Index of American Imprints 
Through 1800: The Short-Title Evans. 
Clifford K. Shipton and James E. Moon-
ey. 2v. Barre, Mass.: American Anti-
quarian Society and Barre Publishers, 
1969. 102,8p. $45.00. 
The subtitle of this publication is both 

overly modest and misleading. To see it 
only in relation to Evans greatly underesti-
mates its contribution to research, valuable 
though it is when used with that "most im-
portant general list of early American pub-
lications." This beautifully bound, moder-