The invention of printing : a collection of facts and opinions descriptive of early prints and playing cards, the block-books of the fifteenth century, the legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates (1878)
De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : F. Hart · leaf 235
the dead are coming forth from their graves. The figures in the lower corners are those of Zacharias and Judas. In this book, and in nearly all the block-books, the subjects most frequently presented are those that illustrate the marvelous and terrible. The designs have merit, but the letters are… … A Page from the Apostles Creed.Original is 5% by 8^ inches. [From Dibdin.] BLOCK-BOOKS WITHOUT TEXT. 229 copy of the book described by Dibdin has on the fly-leaf thewritten memorandum V. W. 1471, but it is not probable thatthis writing has any reference to the date of printing. THE EIGHT ROGUERIES.…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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