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 96
r form than No. 2.The Scales is the only mark that occurs in theBodleian (Sykes) copy of the Biblia Pauperum.We do not find it in the printed productions ofthe Low Countries. It is a very common mark, when within a circle,in books printed at Venice and at Rome; theform of the upper presenting an… … A STAR, Radiated, with Inscription in Centre. The only instance of this mark that we have met with, is in two of the sheets of the Bohn copy of the fourth edition of the Apocalypse, pi. D., all the other sheets containing the small Head of the Bull. We are quite unable to make out the inscription…
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