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 110
ustrated with several plates of tracings of paper-marks. The marks are, how-ever, chiefly of those used during a period much later than that to which ourinquiries refer. Among them, however, are several tracings of the Unicorn mark, allof a very different form from those given by us, but shewing… … In the above tracings we have specimens of the Unicorn mark as used from1398 to 1450. We might have occupied very many pages with representations oftheir variety in design, dated as late even as the seventh century. With theexception of the Unicorn rearing, no other but the full figure occurs in…
Block books · Printing · Watermarks
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