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 40
ll placedon the sieve lengthways. The Ps are aU of a similar form to those given. The copy in the hbrary of the late Mr. Lea Wilson, of Norwood, had, for some ofits marks, similar ones to those in the preceding, one of the unicorns agreeing inalmost every particular. The two Unicorns are evidently… … HOLLAND AND THE LOW COUNTRIES. 25 EDITIONS OF THE BIBLIA PAUPERUM CONTINUED. PLATE F. Edition II. Spencer A. Gopy. The pages in this copy are closely pasted together;but on our discovering that the only mark on the paper was the Unicorn of thisparticular form, a mark we were most desirous of…
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