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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 114

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 114
The large P, as in tracings Nos. 1, 2, and 5, are found in the Books of Accountsfrom Wyck, North and South Holland, Voorne, Jleusden, and The Texel, and of theComtes de Blois, ranging from 1387 to 1393. The Accounts from Wyck of 1372 to1388 afforded the only instance of the small plain P, No. 3. To…

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