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 103
ophies he states, p. 6, the rhinoceros is supposed by many, andby myself among the rest, to be the animal alluded to by Job, chap, xxxix. verses 10 and 11, where it is written, Canst thou bind the Unicorn with his band in the furrow ? or will he harrow the valleys after thee ? Wiltthou trust him… … As a symbol, attendant on a Vii-gin, the Unicom was frequently used.Annexed we give a fac-simile of an excessively rare print,the production of The Master of 1466. Here the wildanimal is represented in a state of perfect subjection to theVirgin; and it is endeavoured to be shewn by the artist,that…
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