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 164
blank. * M. Guichard has it tuget. The word is much obliterated in the Spencer copy; but it shews, we think,a double g. At the close of the first line, M. Guichard has the word halt in lieu of hatt. Again, he usesmany capitals which are not in the original. DIE KUNST CIROMANTIA. 87 Leaf XXVI. rec.… … This is the earliest published work on the Art of Chiromancy. Hartlieb isconsidered by many learned authors* to have been only the translator of it. Theyattribute to his pen the German versions of Eusebius and Ovid, the one printed atAugsburg in 1472, and the other, in 1482, at the same place. It…
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