In 1481 Anton Koberger published his first illustrated book, Postilla super Bibliam of Nicolaus de lyra, with forty-three woodcuts, which were imitated not only at Cologne, but at Venice, though their interest is not very great.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
The most famous of these is in the constellation lyra, not far from Vega.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
Here and there, also, were little shelves of oak in the common Anglomaniac style of woodwork, ornamented with trefoils, crosses, circles, and triangles, and containing a curious collection of sacred literature, beginning with the ancient volume entitled Wilberforce's View, including the poetry published in a series of lyras,-lyra Anglicana, lyra Germanica, and so on,-culminating at last in the works of Dr. Pusey; the whole perhaps exhibiting in a succinct form the stages through which Mary Carvel had passed, or was still passing, in her religious convictions.
"Paul Patoff"
F. Marion Crawford