The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 562
es) made of pewter or lead, hardened byan alloy (Fig. 391). Now, a rather singular circumstance comes to corroborate what was saidby Adrian Junius. A Latin edition of the Speculum, an in-folio of sixty-three leaves, with wood engravings in two compartments at the head ofeach leaf, consists of a… … Speculum, in folio, has also two pages in a type smaller and closer thanthe rest of the text. How are we to explain these anomalies ? On the onehand, a mixture of xylography and typography ; on the other, a combinationof two different kinds of movable type. My hypothesis is, if indeed thedetails…
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