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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 88

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 88
e paper made in Germany at an earlier period than that when Fust commencedprinting. Besides which, they are not the only marks occurring in the paper usedby John Fust and his partner SchoefFer, or even by their sujoposed predecessorGutenberg. We have in our collections, the P., the Bull, the Double… … Tracings Nos. 1 and 2 are from Account Books at the Hague; the one dated1430, and the other 1443-4. Many of the marks vary slightly in form. No. 3 isfrom a copy of the Mazarine Bible, and No. 4 from the Bible of 1462, issued byFust and Schoeffer. The Head in the Inglis copy of the Apocalypse, pi.…

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