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REVIEWS. 107 somewhat insignificant tra<5ts of less than twenty leaves. In 1503, however, he made his mark with a large and handsome edition of the Passau Missal, and henceforward his position as a liturgical printer was assured. A long and notable series of service books continued to issue from his press until his death in 1519, and in point of bulk far outdistanced all the rest of his work put together. From about 1512, indeed, Winterburger produced practically nothing that was not either liturgical or official in character, the only important exception being Peurbach's ' Tabula eclipsium,' printed for the University of Vienna in 1514; it is significant that although this book only contains one hundred and thirty-four leaves, it is more than twice as large as any other of his non-liturgical tra<5ts. Besides being, in fa<5l if not in name, official printer to the Emperor, he produced a certain number of human- istic works connected with Celtes and the Societas Danubiana, and as he calls himself in one place c cara<5lerum sculpendorum ingeniosissimus,' it would appear that his types, and very possibly also his handsome and varied woodcut capitals, were of his own designing. Altogether, he is a remarkable figure in the history of early typography, and the praise lavished upon him by Dr. Langer and Dr. Dolch is not undeserved. Dr. Dolch has supplied a descriptive list of Winterburger's types, together with notes of the years in which they were first introduced a welcome innovation in monographs of this kind. Perhaps it would have been as well to tabulate the sets of woodcut capitals also, as the sections of the introduction dealing with