Sotheby, Samuel Leigh,  1805-1861. <br/><br/>
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 / 
a work contemplated by the late Samuel Sotheby, and carried out by his son, Samuel Leigh Sotheby. 
 - London :  printed for the author by W. McDowall,  1858. 
 - 3 v. :  facsims. (partly col.) ;  37 cm. 
<br/><br/> Of the 250 copies printed, 220 were sold at auction May 5, 1858. 
<br/><br/>v. 1. Holland and the Low countries -- v. 2. Germany -- v. 3. Paper-marks. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Block books.<br/>Printing--History--Origin and antecedents.<br/>Watermarks.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Z240  / .S7124 1858