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
te, et pour ne rien omettre. It is only in this and another instance that Heinecken has made any allusion tothe paper-marks in the various copies of the Block-Books that have come under hispersonal observation. In this case it is evident that he only did so in consequenceof Mariette calling his… … 44 PAPER-MARKS. marks. Mariette no doubt agreed with tlie opinion of Heinecken, that the paperused for those copies was made in France. So hkewise M. Bernard, on finding thatthe copy he examined of the Recueil des Histoires de Troyes* contained, on some ofthe leaves, a similar water-mark, supports…
Block books · Printing · Watermarks
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