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 73
y NoinviUe, Membre de la Soc. des Inscriptions, etde la Soc. Eoyale de Londres. The MS. comprises 373 pages, an abridgment of wbicb is stated to have beenprinted in a duodecimo volume. t Histoire des Dues de Bourgoigne, par Barante. Par. 1842, vol. ii. p. 113. t The volume occurred last year at the… … Par force le leu rompt et tue,A ses dens et gris la couronne,Et le lion par tresgrant ireDe sa pate grant coup lui done. (TKiKSLATIOX.) By force the Wolf breaks and oerturns.With teeth and fangs, the Lions crown ; A^^th greatest rage the Monarch burns.And with his paw he knocks him down.
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