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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 156

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 156
f Earl Spencer, mentioned in vol. ii. p. 22. The paper is of athick and firm texture. Renouard Copy. Two varieties of the Head of the Bull are the only marks.The first is very similar to No. 6 of the Munich copies, both, no doubt, of the sameedition. The paper used in the Renouard copy is of a… … JUadckj; Lith J, HeiluufUm/S^Stn^ui ISSS. ARS MORIENDI S

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