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 153
grass taking its place.The end of the scroll on the left is not so well defined;and some of the rock-work on the left is, in Edition3, omitted. There are, as we have before stated, variations hi the minor parts of the designin many of the subjects of the second and third editions; but as we have… … The cut exhibits the right lower part of the design, and on comparing it with thefac-simile of the same from the third edition, (Plate xx.), it will be seen, that grass issubstituted for the flower at the right corner, and that the two flowers below theroot of the tree are different. Such slight…
Block books · Printing · Watermarks
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