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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 179

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 179
copy of the 1470 edition of the Biblia Pauperum aifords the only instance we have met with of that mark. Thatin the Bohn copy of the fourth edition of theApocalypse is of a different form. Through thekindness of a correspondent, near Coventry, weare enabled to give the mark at the side. Itis taken… … Having now come to a conclusion of our notices on the various Paper-Marksthat occur in the several copies of the Block-Blocks we have been able to examine,we much fear that our investigations have not been productive of that result whichmay have been anticiiDated. On entering, comparatively, a new…

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