Inside Out Library · Explore

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 294

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 294
(Sottectjtcce-trieftfrlag trc mgeUgfriitptr-geDgo … mit Win in te purl* tec frljepfug in &f ♦ iif-ra-i&as DecIrtcc fpratl} su ti fttjlagen aufif trintc prutt toir&u geni£)n fcarnatl] lrfen wir to pel no tec fctjlagen on oo tfroe tbMoir inirt surribf tritt tjaubt mt tin mirft JjaHtirfuftftapfe*£)nO fcaotH tcfuliftuiorttf in trcpotfrtjafit…

Block books · Printing · Watermarks

Internet Archive · Boston Public Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

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

More like this