Specimen of Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby’s Principia typographica, an extensively illustrated work, in three volumes, imperial quarto, on the block-books, or xylographic delineations of scripture history [...]

Specimen of Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby’s Principia typographica, an extensively illustrated work, in three volumes, imperial quarto, on the block-books, or xylographic delineations of scripture history [...]

Author: Sotheby, Samuel L. (Samuel Leigh)

Year: 1858

Full title: Specimen of Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby’s Principia typographica, an extensively illustrated work, in three volumes, imperial quarto, on the block-books, or xylographic delineations of scripture history issued in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, during the Fifteenth Century; on their connexion with The Origin of Printing, and on the character of the water-marks in the paper of the period. pp. [6], f. [1], pp. xvi, f. [1], pp. 190. Morocco. Bound with vol. 3 of the Principia itself (‘Paper-marks. Other title Paper-marks in the early block-books of the Netherlands and Germany,’ see Bib# 1259639/Fr# 1664 in this collection). Contains many plates. With a leaf inscribed by Sotheby: ‘This enlarged Specimen of the Principia Typographia is with much pleasure presented to R. H. Major by the author, May 5, 1859.’