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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 155

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 155
the present, as we there find theradius in the broken state, as in the latter part of the present edition. I would observe also, that the lines of allthe cuts in this first printed impression are thinner than those of Mr. Singers edition (as the wood spreads), arebroader, by the pressure of the… … wfos Ittofm (1fta\)t\utfexvt)d m (Sitttps S^i^ipHpi vv/* /<8S Scroti; m$km*fai)&\n$vcy hwfirtiite wpfintij MAUv> Yten\ oteff dtp timijc^ &u< JJ *t tot (c m^ftfcfk jW/u SPECULUM HUMANE SALVATIOXIS. 83

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