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 301
e contrary way. The cut was also used on thetitle of Secunda Pars Boctrinalis Alexandri by the same printer, dated 1511,but with the name Joannes Bergis inserted in lieu of Jacobus de Breda. As the copyof only the figure occurs in the Decameron, we here give the whole of the woodengraving, leaving… … That Jacobus de Breda considered the figure in the last design to represent theprinter of the Speculum, is, in our humble opinion, certain, and amply serves as anapology for our so considering it at a period of nearly three hundred and forty yearsafter. We are only astonished that Dr. Dibdin and…
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