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 [...]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> 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.</span></p> 

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 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.’</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039645789707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>