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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 80

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 80
* Extract from the History of the Dukes of Burgundy by my Father. t Penninck-Boeck. Leyden, 1597, pi. xii. + Ibid., pi. xi. HOLLAND AND THE LOW COUNTRIES. 43 Shields of Arms, No. VIII. … The Arms of France. Our first tracing is from the Spencer copy of the Saliceto,pi. P. Had we been able to make a perfect tracing of theshield of arms in the Chatsworth copy of the Biblia Paupe-rum, we have no doubt it also would have turned out to bethe Arms of France. The second tracing is from a…

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