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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 by Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, 1805-1861. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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- Author
- Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, 1805-1861.
- Publisher
- Printed for the author by W. McDowall, 1858.
- Published
- 1858
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
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