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 241
ts of his life. The thirty-first cut represents the murderersrunning away, an angel being above them. In the thirty-second cut, the flightcontinues to be pursued. The thirty-third cutf (as annexed) thus exhibits them,the German being as follows: Hie furl man die mord vo danne un wil schleisse… … jjintttt O^tetlRirircctcra toe wpettnoljet aftejir Ijmtiadjmt * This is the second work alluded to at p. 148, ante. f The engraving is a fac-simile of that given by Dr. Dibdin in his BiUiograpliical Tour, vol. iii. p. 285. THE LIFE OF ST. MEINRAT. 151 In the thirty-fourth cut, Peter and Richard are…
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