An inquiry concerning the invention of printing : in which the systems of Meerman, Heinecken, Santander, and Koning are reviewed : including also notices of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, the block-books, etc.
A bibliographic study of printing's origins by William Young Ottley, completed by J. Philibert Berjeau and published in London by J. Lilly in 1863 for collectors and historians of early woodcuts and block-books. Its plates are outline facsimiles of fifteenth-century drawings and prints: armoured soldiers, helmets, standing figures and tangled combat scenes, useful as clean contour line art and costume reference.
