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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 64

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 64
. Ed. 4, 5.—The same. Page. XXXIV. Upper: Et venit units.Ed. 1, 2, 3.—The same. Ed. 4, 5.—The same; but the nimbus aroundthe head of St. John is omitted in Edition 4.Lower—Ed, 1, 2, 3.—The same.Ed. 4, 5.—The same. XXXV. Upper: Et vidi sedes.Ed. 1, 2, 3.—The same. Ed. 4.—The staff of St. John is… … Ed. 5, as under.

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