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
other marks in those Accounts, alsoonce, coarse paper. Almost equally rare was the occurrence of the mark 4, ithaving been found only in an Account Book from South Holland, dated 1393. From the year 1393 until 1444 or 1445, we do not find the letter P in any ofthe paper in the Books of Accounts at… … 78 PAPER-MARKS. In the preceding tracings, we have the P taken from Books of Accounts datedfrom 1444 to 1508. The peculiar form, No. 1, 1444 or 1445, does not frequentlyoccur; nor does No. 4, which is taken from a Book of the Rents of Hennemerland,from 1448 to 1451. Here we have a tracing of the…
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