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 125
. 8 o.Arms indistinct on Sig. 8 e. 4, plain. 14,31,15. Bulls Head as below. No. 3. 36.Speculum ViTiE Christl No date. Good paper. 5, 27,45, 56, 4, 46. Statutes of Richard III. No date. Stout paper. 45, and others larger. Statutes of Henry VII. White and firm paper. 2, 32. Victory against the Turks.… … No. 1. No. 3. No. 2. Though, occasionally Caxton may have used paper procured from Germany, yetthe marks we have given are sufficient to shew that the greater part of his paperwas obtained from the Low Countries. In the three plates of tracings are no lessthan between forty and fifty dijfferent…
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