The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 568
s) made of pewter or lead, hardened byan alloy (Fig. 391). îfow, a rather singular circumstance cornes to corroborate what was saidby Adxian Junius. A Latin édition of the Spéculum, an in-folio of sixty-three leaves, with wood engravings in two compartments at the head ofeach leaf, consists of a… … Spéculum, in folio, bas also two pages in a type smaller aud doser thanthe rest of the text. How are we to explain thèse anomalies ? On the onehand, a mixture of xylograpliy and typography ; on the other, a combinationof two différent kinds of movable type. My hypothesis is, if indeed thedétails…
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