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 85
48 PAPER-MARKS. The i^i-eceding three tracings are taken from Manuscripts of about the first thirdof the fifteenth centuiy, though they were, no doubt, used much earUer. Here we feelthe want of being able to give a specimen taken from dated Manuscripts. Some ofour tracings of this species of head… … No. 1 is from the Book of Accounts of the Duke Albrecht (1401-3); No. 2, froman Account Book at Harlem (Harlemer Bosch), 1410. No. 3, from Accounts at theHague (Schonhoven), 1446, the mark, with variations, occurring frequently in theaccounts from 1428 to about 1450. No. 4 is from a letter in the…
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