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 84
k through its several species, of each of whichwe will give tracings from marks in dated Manuscripts, noting by the way theinstances where similar ones are found in the various copies of the Block-Bookswe have examined. * Penninck-Boeck. Leyden, 1597. t Mais comme il sagissoit principalement… … The above tracings are from Books of Accounts at the Hague, No. 1 (NorthHolland), 1354; No. 2 (Voorne), 1384-5; No. 3 (Counts of Holland ), 1362. We have not met with any of these marks, nor marks of similar size and charac-ter, after about the commencement of the fifteenth century. Among the…
Block books · Printing · Watermarks
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