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 327
In the Vita Christi some of the illustrations occupy the whole page, and manyothers are of the same size as the smaller one above. They are not all the workof one person, some few being engraved more delicately than others. Besidesthose referred to, there is a separate series, of above fifty…
Block books · Printing · Watermarks
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