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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 300

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 300
r), that the second* of the abovefac-similes meant for the printer himself is taken. After we had had the above cut copied from the De-cameron, Mr. Singer kindly favoured us with the loan of avolume containing many grammatical treatises printed atDeventer by Jacob d,e Breda and Theodore de Borne. *… … 180 SPECULUM HUMANE SALVATIONIS. Among them was an edition of a Donatus, printed by the former in 1500, having thesame wood engraving on the recto of the first leaf, the word Donatus above, thusforming the title page: so, likewise, another treatise, intitled Bominus que Pars.In both pieces the same…

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