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 25
f the water-mark, but in almost every one of those minute particulars by which, as we haveabove remarked, the actual identity of manufacture is proved in respect of the verypaper on which these two works are printed. We here subjoin fac-similes of thetracings (from the Bodleian copies) of the two… … Though the above marks do not, from the above rough tracings, on the strictestexamination, bear evidence of their identity, as regards their exact j)Osition, yet theyare sufficiently alike to shew that there can be little doubt of the identity of themanufacture of the paper. On a close examination…
Block books · Printing · Watermarks
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