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 240
site page is a fac-simile of that given by Dr.Dibdin, as alluded to in the description of the work, forming in this volume, plate LXXXV. * Bibliographical Tour, vol. iii, p. 335. t The circumstance of the leaves being pasted together, as customary with the Block-Books, gave the workthe appearance… … 150 THE LIFE OF ST. MEINRAT. The Life of St. Meinrat. In German*. In a series of woodcut representations.This Saint was murdered by two men, whose Christian names were Peter andRichard, and who were always afterwards haunted by a couple of crows. There isa German introduction of two pages,…
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