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 145
as given in No. I. of our facsimiles. Thereis then a page of introductory matter, on the recto of the next leaf, as in No. II.,which has on the reverse a design representing a building, evidently intended forRome, there being in the foreground a wolf, with Romulus and Remus beneath.After this… … * This copy was obtained from Munich, and is a duplicate of the one in the Public Library. The copy isdescribed, in the Bibliotheca Spenceriana, vol. vi. p. 188, to be much cropt, when compared with that retainedat Munich. Dr. Dibdin states that it was unknown to Heinecken and all other…
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