But when we think of Pynson's edition of Lord Berners' Froissart, of Berthelet's of Gower's Confessio Amantis, of Godfray's Chaucer, and of Grafton's edition of Halle's Chronicle, all illustratable books and all unillustrated, it is evident that educated book-buyers, wearied of rudely hacked blocks, often with no relevance to the book in which they were found, had told the printers that they might save the space occupied by these decorations, and that the reign of the primitive woodcut in English books, if it can be said ever to have reigned, was at an end.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard