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 265
the wood-engravings of St. Bridget and the Annunci-ation, of which fac-similes are given in Mr. Ottleys History of Engraving. ALPHABET OF INITIAL LETTERS. We have, in our first volume, pp. 123—127, given a description of a small Block-Book consisting only of designs forming an alphabet. There are,… … The above is taken from one of some fac-similes made by Mr. Henry Foss,when in Paris in 1817. Respecting it, Mr. Foss has written at the side, From aBlock-Book of four leaves, with labels, in German, to each figure, and a letter of thealphabet, by which it appears to have been for the use of…
Block books · Printing · Watermarks
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