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 241
with Arabic figures referring toexplanations in the text. The dove, for it must be so consid-ered, although it looks like an owl, perched on the head of thesymbolized St. John, may be accepted as the emblem of theDeity. The two heads beside the eagle are to be understood asthose of Moses and of… … Fac-simile of a Page of the Ars Memorandi.Engraving in the original print is 6% by 9K American inches. [From Heineken.l BLOCK-BOOKS WITH TEXT. 235 of the second chapter, the marriage at Cana. The fish recallsthe pool of Bethesda. The numeral 3 points to the conversa-tion with Nicodemus; the…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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