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Block Books
Bibliotheca typographica, xylographica, et palaeographica. Catalogue of manuscripts, block books, and early productions of the printing press in all countries (Catalogue no. 260)
Catalogue of works on bibliography, typography, and literary history; of block-books; choice books printed upon vellum; catalogues of libraries (Catalogue no. 344)
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
Catalogue of very choice and valuable early printed books with a few illuminated manuscripts, the property of Charles Fairfax Murray, Esq. (deceased), (sold by order of the executors), comprising the famous block book of the Apocalyptic Visions of St. John, c. 1460; rare XVth and XVIth century books, with woodcuts, including Columna's Mer des histoires, Verard, c. 1505, with a folding woodcut hitherto unknown to bibliographies; a fine and extensive series of tracts by Savonarola, many with woodcuts; illuminated liturgical and secular manuscripts on vellum; books in fine bindings, including beautiful examples of XVIth century Lyonese workmanship, etc.; etc. Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge… on Friday, the 18th of July, 1919…
The Invention of Printing