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 258
s printed, we ascertained, oncomparing the page with that in the copy of Earl Spencer* that the leaf belongedto that edition. The fac-simile is, however, useful, as serving to shew the differenceof the types, side by side, of the two Dutch editions; twenty-/ow lines of the secondoccupying nearly… … lis riamtltolfi aD vuiagtn t CiKuiDm6ta ^ i TT ifudfctsnai%tC b e fliaf tit fuie gbel teemrnfrgliHet brbauttttiflfr Dtt raacrji ater in fieu m« Ijiuiitff Miantd bebia t^nae t;iff € n b ot ti aami iff b he t mtjtic^rit| gnbff metcrtftaet: 6 ludfec Ijtet? 5tifcirf bi be* trnf gab fin? rtnege* fienJ*…
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