This block [Hypsipyle and Medea] was used to print this illustration on page 431. It shows Hypsipyle and Medea in the foreground with the Argos in the background. On the edges of the block can be seen cardboard wedges, which were used to keep the block in place within its electrotype frame. A further advantage of using electrotypes to assemble the more elaborately decorated pages in the Chaucer was that a metal electrotype mounted on a wooden base had great strength, and could withstand considerable pressure when blocks. type and other typographical elements were wedged within it.
Includes blocks for the Canterbury Tales, ABC of Chaucer, Ballad of Womanly Noblesse, Romaunt of the Rose, Parliament of Fowls, Boethius de Consolatione, the Book of the Duchess, Treatise on the Astrolabe, Legend of Good Women, the House of Fame, Troilus and Criseyde,
Replying to an enquiry from PN, William Waters stated: Hypermnestra in the design and window is always to the left but the convention has arisen to name the figures by putting Phyllis first. That is how the confusion arose.