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 86
ntsat the Hague. There is one instance, of the date of 1466. We find it in the Ren-dorp copy of the third edition of the Speculum, pi. I. In the Spencer copy of theLudovicus de Roma, pi. O., are tkree varieties; and occasionally they are found inbooks printed in the Low Countries, as also in… … No. 1 is from Accounts at the Hague (Sclioonlioven), 1424-5; No. 2, of severalvarieties {Harlemer Bosch), 1429-30,1432,1433, and 1434; No. 3, from the CliiircliRegister at Harlem, 1422-3, and 1426. No. 4 is from the Accounts from South Hol-land, 1445-6: it belongs rather to the class of heads last…
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