Excerpt from 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, Vol. 1: To Which Is Added an Attempt to Elucidate the Character of the Paper-Marks of the Period; Holland and the Low Countries
LXXVIII. Unknown edition. First Page of an undescribed edition, with the Text in the German language 83 right It is taken from an impression of a wood-engraving of comparatively modern date, and apparently engraved by the same hand as that of plate LXVIII.
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