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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 108

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 108
horse;rather misshapen, however, are Nos. 3 and 4. No. 1 is from the Accounts fromZwalow, 1352-3; No. 2, from Accounts from North Holland, 1354; No. 3, from copiesof Documents, 1355-6, in Register A. L.; No. 4, from a very early manuscript ofIsidorus; No. 5, from Accoimts from Zwalow, 1357. The… … We have not met with the mark of the two busts of the Unicorn joined earlierthan 1370. It is found in several letters, in the Tower of London, written duriag theclose of the first half of the fifteenth century, all of which are, however, rather smallerthan our tracing. One occurs on a roU dated the…

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