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
enry VI., 1443. Half Unicorn. Profile. No. 2 above. Our earhest specimen is taken from ahalf-sheet iu our collection from Accounts at the Hague, dated as early as 1357.Varjdng in form, it is met with in other Accounts up to 1418; that with two horns,as No. 3 above, being in the Accounts from Putte… … 72 PAPER-MAEKS. While writing these observations, we have before us a volume containing nearlytwo hundred and fifty sheets of paper, wherein are written legal opinions of manyof the most eminent Florentine Counsellors from 1380 to 1420. The volume appearsto have been taken from some public office…
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