Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval (1843)
Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley, 1770-1842 · London : M. A. Nattali · leaf 600
37 leaAes, printed between theyears 1450 and 1455. Rude specimensfrom wooden blocks appeared in Hol-land as soon as 1440, and at Mentzfrom the same materials before 1450;but this is accounted a difierent art,and was probably borrowed from theChinese. According to Astle, the very ^ Du Cange, v.… … Ped.ToMSiiln(v Kcnuou hv^ MANUFACTURES — TRADES, &C. 501 early prints from wooden blocks, with-out the least shadowing or crossing ofstrokes, was probably contrived by theilluminators of MSS. and makersof playing-cards. These, inelegantlydaubed over with colours, which theytermed illuminations,…
Classical antiquities · Civilization, Medieval
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