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 234
ires. It is seen that nearly forty years haveelapsed since the two facsimiles from this work were made by Mr. Foss, and that they were taken from the twoleaves on which are sixteen woodcuts; each leaf, we presume, contains eight. It is therefore very evident,that, as one of the copies in the… … CONFESSIONAL E. PLATE LXXXI. CONFESSIONALE. GERMANICE.—oder EIN BEICHTSPIEGEL NACH DEN ZEHN GEBDE3NT. Block-Book of Eight Leaves or Sixteen Pages.—Small Quarto. The only copy of this exceedingly curious volume believed to be extant, of whichHeinecken appears to be ignorant, occurred for sale at the…
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