The Pentateuch of printing, with a chapter on Judges (1891)
Blades, William, 1824-1890, Reed, Talbot Baines · Chicago : A. C. McClurg and company · leaf 43
ning their use. Theywere called Biblia Pauperum, and have therefore been supposed tobe books for poor people. This idea is evidently erroneous if we thinkfor a moment how uncommon in those days was the ability to read,particularly among the great mass of the people. It is more probablethat these… … Genesis. In the later Block-books, engraved sentences and even half-pages ofexplanation are seen. The dislike of wood engravers to cut letters is thesame now as it was four centuries and a-half ago, the mechanical nature ofsuch work being distasteful to any one with artistic feeling. The…
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