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Grotesque alphabet of 1464; (1899)

British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings · London, Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 10

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5 The reconstruction of the three original sheets by Sotheby (Principia Typographica I. 122) in the diagram here reproduced is, no doubt, correct. … It,.is based upon the, position of the watermark, an inverted anchor with a cross over it, which occurs three times on the paper of the alphabet. The upper portion appears in the letters (A, now lost,) E, and I; the lower portion in the letters N, R, and X. Each pair of letters thus indicated would…

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