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 43
hatsworth Copy. The letters P and Y, and the Shield of Arms,The latter occurs only twice. Edition II. British Museum, (Royal Library) Copy. The Unicorn and BullsHead the only marks. The leaves of the copy are so firmly pasted together, thatwe could not, in tracing them, distinguish the places of… … Edition VI. Bodleian Copy. The small P occurs but seldom, and is generallyturned the contrary way. The other sheets have the Cock, the greater portion of thembeing very indistinct. The Cock occurs in no other copy of any of the Block-Bookswe have seen.
Block books · Printing · Watermarks
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