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... leaf , the impression being taken by rubbing , with a dabber or burnisher , the back of a sheet of paper laid on the thinly inked woodblock . The later blockbooks were printed in a press on both sides of the paper , with thicker and ...
... leaf , the impression being taken by rubbing , with a dabber or burnisher , the back of a sheet of paper laid on the thinly inked woodblock . The later blockbooks were printed in a press on both sides of the paper , with thicker and ...
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... leaf at the Gutenberg Museum at Mainz ) , and of several editions of the most widely used schoolbook of the day , that of Aelius Donatus , ' De octo partibus orationis . ' Of these last an example is here shown ( Case I. No. 4 ) . These ...
... leaf at the Gutenberg Museum at Mainz ) , and of several editions of the most widely used schoolbook of the day , that of Aelius Donatus , ' De octo partibus orationis . ' Of these last an example is here shown ( Case I. No. 4 ) . These ...
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... leaves ( A , b - v , .a .- . v . ) forming the series is placed below the upper compartment containing the half figures of the two prophets . The title ' Biblia Pauperum ' appears to have been first bestowed on this work by eighteenth ...
... leaves ( A , b - v , .a .- . v . ) forming the series is placed below the upper compartment containing the half figures of the two prophets . The title ' Biblia Pauperum ' appears to have been first bestowed on this work by eighteenth ...
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... leaves ( lettered .s . , .t . , .v . ) of the edition which Schreiber considers the first , and 37 of the fourth , the former being lightly touched with colour , and the latter more heavily painted . A nearly complete copy of the first ...
... leaves ( lettered .s . , .t . , .v . ) of the edition which Schreiber considers the first , and 37 of the fourth , the former being lightly touched with colour , and the latter more heavily painted . A nearly complete copy of the first ...
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... leaves , with 27 lines to a page , in the same stage of this large type as the Calendar , now at Wiesbaden , said to be calculated for the year 1448. In addition to this , which is the tenth of the fourteen leaves , eight other leaves ...
... leaves , with 27 lines to a page , in the same stage of this large type as the Calendar , now at Wiesbaden , said to be calculated for the year 1448. In addition to this , which is the tenth of the fourteen leaves , eight other leaves ...
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Page 100 - THE HOLY BIBLE, conteyning the Old ' Testament and the New : Newly Translated out of the ' Originall Tongues : and with the former Translations ' diligently compared and reuised, by his Maiesties ' speciall Commandement . Appointed to be read in
Page 103 - ... Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, Not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers.
Page 104 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Page 104 - By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon and Then a Captain of Several Ships.
Page 89 - Biblia — the Bible, that is, the Holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament faithfully and truly translated out of Douche and Latyn in to Englishe.
Page 58 - I myght this sayd book, therfore I haue practysed and lerned at my grete charge and dispense to ordeyne this said book, in prynte after the maner and forme as ye may here see, and is not wreton with penne and ynke as other bokes ben...
Page 58 - And for as moche as in the wrytyng of the same my penne is worn / myn hande wery and not stedfast myn eyen dimmed with ouermoche lokyng on the whit paper / and my corage not so prone and redy to laboure as hit hath ben / and that age crepeth on me dayly and febleth all the bodye...
Page 92 - So much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby as relates to her Domestic History, and to the Eventful Period of King Charles the First, the Protectorate, and the Restoration (1635 to 1663).
Page 100 - Shakespeare.— MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. London, Printed by ISAAC IAGGARD and ED. BLOUNT. 1623...
Page 94 - For the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints in Publick and Private, especially in New England.