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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 250

An illustration from 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, leaf 250
Z 0 o a … THE FABLE OF THE SICK LION. PLATE LXXXVI. No. II.Block-Book of Twelve Leaves.-—Small Folio. The JTabel bom fcranken Loluen—Fable of the Sick Lion. This hitherto almost unknown work consists of twelve leaves in folio, written orprinted* on both sides, with nine woodcuts of the whole size of the…

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More pictures from 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

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