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 176
No. 1 is from a very early but undated Italian Manuscript we met with someyears since; No. 2, from the Putte and Stryen Accounts of 1389, at the Hague;No. 3, from those of the Counts of Holland, 1408-9; a very similar mark occurring ina letter, in the Tower of London, to the Archbishop of…
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