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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 87

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 87
all reversed, and as the volume is quite ofas rare occurrence as the Block-Book, we give the annexed facsimile in wood of thedesign of the same subject, together with its descriptive text, as occurs in the upperpart of our Plate lxiit. Der Cmtfekrift wirt gebozn m cuter f» at $eron t grofs babtf… … APOCALYPSIS S. JOHANNIS. FIFTH EDITION. PLATE LXV. THE FIRST PAGE. (From a Coloured Copy lately in the Library at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire. Block-Book of Forty-eight Leaves, or Engraved Pages.—Small Folio. The pages in this edition are divided into four gatherings of six sheets or twelveleaves,…

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