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Principia typographica. The block-books, or xylographic delineations of scripture history; issued in Holland, Flanders and Germany, during the fifteenth century, exemplified and considered in connexion with the origin of printing. To which is added an attempt to elucidate the character of the paper-marks of the period (1858)

Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, 1805-1861 · London, Printed for the author by W. McDowall · leaf 125

An illustration from Principia typographica. The block-books, or xylographic delineations of scripture history; issued in Holland, Flanders and Germany, during the fifteenth century, exemplified and considered in connexion with the origin of printing. To which is added an attempt to elucidate the character of the paper-marks of the period, 1858, leaf 125
s each, a plan not adopted in the earliest editions of the Block-Books. f Such is the case in the impression of the Harlem copy. See our fac-simile of this design. As in this designin the small folio edition, supposed to have been printed by Guldenschaff, the same tablet bears the letter C as… … XV. -V,V^^\\v,\l!^)ir- }nmr////7.7////7A/-.;/.■// ~~72 ^^pnfijivaaonnabicetiecD l?ouio iircreDfie-peniErae ft sftnf ^ mrtre * fftpj* tift annuo uioftc uifuwibitte to ten lu^rt mm(prtii cmup?cfa&atuii^iiaLefl&r|tua fia)uin?ffjmi>ctt$cCre&uuUniPuu6cirrtiunitiDnaivi^illul)grrra^…

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