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 236
a brasspole with rings, is precisely in many instances in the modern fashion. * The Confessionale was then purchased hy the late Baron von Westrenen van Tiellandt, and is now in thelibrary of the King of Holland at the Hague. t My father appears to have taken no note of this volume, and as I am… … II. VOL. II. U 146 CONFESSIONALE. The reverse (of the engraving, No. I., in the preceding page, plate lxxxiv.) isblank. On the recto of the second leaf the text begins thus: Ich armer lundiger,etc. A full page has twenty lines. At the sixth line we read thus: Sehe HorenReichert Smacke vnd Taste,…
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