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 173
FORE PART OF THE BULL. The Botfield copy of the Ars Moriendi is the only instance of our having met with the mark of the Fore Part of the Bull. Of alarger form, the mark appears to have been usedat an early period. It occurs in a few instances*,in the Account Books at the Hague, the tracingat the… … GERMANY. 115 THE BULL. While noticing the mark of the Bull, which is found in some copies of theMazarine Bible, we stated that Cahxtns III. adopted that figure as his Arms. TheArchives at the Hague afford us examples of the Bull being found in the Accountsfrom Wyck as early as 1374, from which No.…
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