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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 62

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 62
vol. i., does not merit the name of a. facsimile ; and it is only in a few instances in his work that the plates givenby him can be considered, or, indeed, were intended, as such. Plates 6 and 7, from the Biblia Pauperum;plate 17, from the Ars Memoranda; and plate 19, from the Ars Moriendi, are the… … HutiUrtitA/JitU~f<—.PM<( AES MOEIENDI. 27 THIRD GATHERING. FOURTH GATHERING. LEAF LEAF 13 Rec.—Blank. Blank, rev. Rev.—Design 6. Text, rec. 18 14 Rec—Text. Design 8, rev. Rev.—Blank. Blank, rec. 17 15 Rec.—Blank. Blank, rev. Rev.—Design 7. Text, rec. 16 LEAF LEAF- 19 Rec.—Blank. Blank, rev.…

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