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 228
of theDevil. X. Amen. We now behold Paradise, wherein Christ, surrounded by Angels, receives theblessed. Above is God the Father; Frater the Monk, and Oratio theAngel, below. EXERCITIUM SUPER PATER NOSTER. 139a Subsequently to the printing of the pages of this sheet, we have been favoured(through… … * My attention was accidentally drawn to the fac-simile on meeting with a work, in folio, intitled Gemsof Wood-Engraving, from the Illustrated London News, with the History of the Art, Ancient and Modern: ByWilliam Chatto. London : W. Little, 198, Strand. It comprises a repuhlication, in 1849, of…
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