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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 226

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 226
c Zell, butthe copy of the book alluded to was the only one in which I have met with theUnicorn of that form. In the ensuing page are copies of the tracings of those marks, which, thoughapparently the same as in the copies referred to of the Ars Moriendi, Biblia Paupe-rum, Cantica Canticorum, yet…

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