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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 70

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 70
OW COUNTEIES. ANCHOR. An acknoavledged Symbol of a Maritime Country. It is the Arms of the Island of Goree, or Goreda, once a Dynasty, and of suffi-cient consequence to give the name to Goree, in the Atlantic, an Island belongingto the Dutch. It was, no doubt, a symbol frequently used by the…

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