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Ladenspelder, Hans, 355. Laer, W. Rolewinck de, his Fasciculus Temporum, with wood-cuts, 1474, 190. Lamp, the engraver’s, 575. Landells, Ebenezer, wood-engraver, 544. Landseer, Mr. Edwin, on vignettes, 615. Landseer, Mr. John, his theory of vegetable putties, 72; his observations on the term colour, as applied to engravings, 213. Laocoon, burlesque of the, by Titian, 435. Lapis, Dominico de, printer of Bologna, his edition of Ptolemy, with an erroneous date, 201. Lar, the word on a Roman stamp, 8. Lawless, M. J. draughtsman, 599*. Lee, James, wood-engraver, 593*. Lee, John, wood-engraver, 534. Leech, John, artist, 580*, 581*. Leglenweiss, the word explained, 44. Legrand, J. G. his translation of the Hypnerotomachia, 219. Lehne, F. his observations on a passage in the Cologne Chronicle, 122 _n_; his Chronology of the Harlem Fiction, 155; his remarks on Koning, 157. Leicester, Robert Earl of, his portrait in Archbishop Parker’s edition of the Bible, 1568, 419. Leighton, John, artist, 582*. Leighton, Henry, wood-engraver, 582*. Le Jeune, H. painter, 598*. Leland, John, his Næniæ, 1542, contains a portrait, engraved on wood, of Sir Thomas Wyatt, 379. Le Sueurs, French wood-engravers, 443, 467. Letania Lauretana, with wood-cuts, Valencia, 1768, 469. Lettere Cifrate, 395. Leyden, Lucas van, visited by Durer, 269; his engravings, 308. Lhuyd, Humphrey, erroneously described by Walpole as an engraver, 420. Libripagus, a definition of the word, by Paul of Prague, 182. Lignamine, P. de, in his Chronicle, 1474, mentions Gutemberg and Faust, as printers, at Mentz in 1458, 140. Linton, W. J. wood-engraver, 544, 590*, 591*. Lobel and Pena’s Stirpium Adversaria, with copper-plate title-page, London, 1570, 423. Lodewyc von Vaelbeke, a fidler, supposed to have been the inventor of printing, 119. Logography, 417. Lorenzo, Nicolo, books containing copper-plates printed by him, 1477-1481, 202. Lorich, Melchior, 408. Loudon’s Arboretum, with cuts printed from casts of etchings, by Branston, 634. Loudon, J. wood-engraver, 600*. Lowering, the practice of, no recent invention, 465. Lowering, concave, 618. Lowering, advantages of, 624. Lowering, complicated, 625. Lowering, the difference between cylindrical rollers and the common press, so far as relates to, 640 _n_. Lucas van Leyden, 308. Lucchesini, an Italian wood-engraver, about 1770, 469. Luther, Martin, his cause espoused by Durer, 265; caricature portraits of, 267. Lutzelburger, Hans, a wood-engraver, 351. Lydgate, John, mentions vignettes in his Troy Book, 616. Lysons, Mr. Samuel, letter from, to Sir George Beaumont, 108.