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 107
aUsts to settle the form of the animal, and the Philologists todecide on the correctness of the interpretation of the Hieroglyphics over theEgyptian Oryx. Bust of the Unicorn. Profile. An examination of the Archives in other partsof the Netherlands than the Hague and at Harlem, would, no doubt,… … We might have selected many other equally grotesque forms of the Head of theUnicorn from our tracings. The above five, however, are sufficient to shew thatthe animal, in those days, was believed to have partaken of the form of the horse;rather misshapen, however, are Nos. 3 and 4. No. 1 is from the…
Block books · Printing · Watermarks
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