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 206
, that on those containing the letters A, E, and I,, aportion of a water-mark of the anchor appears, the same fitting and perfecting theother portions of the mark on N, R, and X; by which it seems that the twenty-fourdesigns were taken off on three sheets of paper, eight letters on each sheet, the…
Block books · Printing · Watermarks
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