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A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical (1881)

Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864, Jackson, John, 1801-1848, Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884 · New York : J. W. Bouton · leaf 214

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rst began to print there about14)75, more books with wood-cuts were printed in that city previousto 1480 than at any other place within the same period. In 1477 thefirst German Bible with wood-cuts was printed by Sorg, who printedanother edition with the same cuts and initial letters in 1480. In… … Upon this work Gebhard, in his Genealogical History of tbe HeritableStates of the Gerraan Empire, makes the following observations :— Thefirst printed collection of arms is that of 1483 in the History of theCouncil of Constance written by Ulrich Eeichenthal. To this councilwe are indebted…

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