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 90
d together, or bound up without any regard to theorder in which they were originally published. The Stowe copy of this edition, however, happened, most fortunately for ourresearches in these interesting typograjmical minutiae, to be in a most perfect andoriginal state: at once elucidating a point… … APOCALYPSIS SAXCTI JOHANNIS. 49 its rebinding, and replace the pages in their correct order: the pages then, as it weremechanically, of themselves forming four gatherings of six sheets or twelve leaves,instead of three gatherings of four sheets or eight leaves, as stated by Heinecken*. Not having…
Block books · Printing · Watermarks
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