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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 96

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 96
eipsic, it being a duplicate copy from his very extraordinary and extensive xylo-graphical collections. f On reference to our enumeration (vol. i. p. 25) of the pages of that edition (taken from the work ofHeinecken, pp. 869-70), it is seen that page 46 is marked as having two letters, z.z., as… … BIBLIA PAUPERUM. PLATES LXVI. AND LXVII. THE FIRST AND LAST PAGES. (From an uncoloured Copy from the Library of the late Lea Wilson*, of Norwood, Surrey, Esq., now in the Collection of Lord Vernon.) Block-Book of Forty Leaves or Engraved Pages.—Small Folio. As in the other editions of this work,…

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