Principia typographica.
Subtitle: 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.
By: A work contemplated by the late Samuel Sotheby, and carried out by his son, Samuel Leigh Sotheby ...
Publisher: Printed for the author by W. McDowall
Published: 1858
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Block books.; Printing -- History -- Origin and antecedents.; Watermarks.
Other titles: Paper-marks in the early block-books of the Netherlands and Germany.
Notes: Of the 250 copies printed, 220 were sold at auction May 5, 1858.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Holland and the Low countries.; title: v. 2. Germany.; title: v. 3. Paper-marks.