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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 37

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 37
gns of the Renouard with those in the Pembroke^ copy of thefirst edition, which is, as we believe, the only perfect one known. * This was purchased by Mr. Boone, the bookseller, at the sale of the library of M. Renouard, at Paris, inDecember 1854. A note by M. Renouard stated that there is a copy… … Jt/aaeief itik 3 WtUtvufum, Si Strand 1855. LVI* K\v\W\S\^\^ v,\\\\\m\\\\m\\\m

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