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 174
TheArchives at the Hague afford us examples of the Bull being found in the Accountsfrom Wyck as early as 1374, from which No. 1 in the subjoined tracings is taken.No. 3, of smaller size, is from the South Holland Accounts of 1439-40. No. 2 istaken from a letter in the Tower of London, from Henry… … In no instance, among the Block-Books assigiied by us as the productions of theNetherlands, have we found the mark of the Bull. In the Bible of 1462, printed byFust and Schoeffer, one occurs of very similar form to that in the Mazarine Bible;and it has been found in the books printed at Cologne by…
Block books · Printing · Watermarks
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