Les Le Rouge de Chablis, calligraphes et miniaturistes, graveurs et imprimeurs. Étude sur les débuts de l'illustration du livre au XVe siècle
Monceaux's 1896 Paris study by Henri Monceaux, published by A. Claudin, examines the Le Rouge family of Chablis and early fifteenth-century book illustration, covering scribes, illuminators, engravers and printers, written for scholars of the book. The woodcuts here show late medieval devotional scenes: a Last Judgment with figures rising from below, a kneeling donor beneath a banner inscribed with Latin, an Annunciation above a grim Fall of Man scene, and a street scene of men in tunics. Designers can take from them the dense, hatched black-and-white line work and the bordered, panel-based page layouts typical of early printed books.
