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 198
h they are intended. In order, however, to shew how difficult it is to obtainaccuracy in all points in respect to fac-similes, we find that those we have givenfrom the two pages of the Liber Regum, are a quarter of an inch longer, andan eighth of an inch wider than the originals. That has arisen… … Won aufcfe 6n$ gfthaws^ * The copy in the Imperial Library at Vienna is stated by Dr. Dibdin to be inevery respect in a fine and perfect state of preservation. We are, however, informedthat it is mounted and much cropt in its margins, as maybe judged of by the imper-fect state of the left side of…
Block books · Printing · Watermarks
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