Book/Printed Material Memoranda relating to the block-books preserved in the Bibliothèque impériale, Paris : made October M.DCCC.LVIII Page View

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    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 2 of Page View EN ve EARS PE rry 2 Â53 i LAER HARE RY IRR I Lr A A 74 Fe Xin FEE 3 Fre 7s Catia woth 4 a a yates Pn oA cree…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 3 of Page View Load C Weoig C THE GIFT OF 25Â LESSING JROSENWALD TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
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    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
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    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 6 of Page View MEMORANDA RELATING TO THE BLOCKBOOKS PRESERVED IN THE BIBLIOTHEQUE IMPERIALE PADLS MADE OCTOBER MDCCCLVIIL BY SAMUEL LEIGH SOTHEBY AUTHOR OF THE âPRINCIPIA TYPOGRAPHICAâ LONDON PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY T RICHARDS MDOGCCLIX…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
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    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 8 of Page View PREFACE I mucH regret that I was unable to prosecute during last Autumn my intended examination of the Xylographic Treasures preserved in the Public Libraries of Europe as announced by me on…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 9 of Page View 4 PREFACE Considering the uncertainty of life and how extremely doubtful it is at the present time whether I may ever be able to accomplish my projected examination of the Xylographic treasures…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 10 of Page View APOCALYPSIS S JOHANNIS I SECOND EDITION Principia Typographica vol i pp 318 The blank pages are pasted together and the designs are coloured It wants eleven leaves viz D1 and 2âE 1…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 11 of Page View 6 APOCALYPSIS S JOHANNIS 111 FOURTH EDITION Pr Typ vol i p 21 Uncoloured and perfect but the pages are bound up very irregularly PaperMArks Pvery like those in the Libri copy…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 12 of Page View BIBLIA PAUPERUM I FIRST EDITION Pr Typ vol i p43 p 88 and p 61 Perfect Some of the blank pages pasted together It is evidently an earlier impression than the Inglis…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 13 of Page View 8 BIBLIA PAUPERUM III FOURTH EDITION Pr Typ enumerated as No 7 in the Variations vol i pp 5057 and again referred to vol i pp 59 and 63 The copy is…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 14 of Page View BIBLIA PAUPERUM 9 ages in the upper part of the right border being less in the former than in the latter If the Paris and Lea Wilson copies of the edition under…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 15 of Page View ARS MORIENDL I ARS MORIENDI Pr Typ vol ii pp 1013 Perfect and unpasted It is an earlier copy than that in the British Museum The left border of the first design…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 16 of Page View ARS MORIENDL 11 employing the best talent he could obtain and the result was that when he got into difficulties being no workman himself others his own con nexions and partner improved…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 17 of Page View 12 CANTICA CANTICORUM PaperMARKS The leaves are so pasted together that I could not trace a small Crown the only mark that occurs VI ANOTHER EDITION Pr Typ vol ii pp 3637…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 18 of Page View ARS MEMORANDI 13 Pace x1 The upper part of the left outer border is wanting In page VI the right side border in both designs is injured so likewise is the left…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 19 of Page View 12 CANTICA CANTICORUM PaperMARKs The leaves are so pasted together that I could not trace a small Crown the only mark that occurs VI ANOTHER EDITION Pr Typ vol ii pp 3637…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 20 of Page View ARS MEMORANDI 13 Pace x1 The upper part of the left outer border is wanting In page VI the right side border in both designs is injured so likewise is the left…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 21 of Page View 14 ENNDKRIST AND QUINDECIM SIGNA III SECOND EDITION Pr Typ vol ii pp 79 Coloured the leaves pasted together It wants four leaves viz Design 11 text  Design x and text…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 22 of Page View EXERCITIUM SUPER PATER NOSTER I FIRST EDITION Pr Typ vol ii pp 1371396 A more forcible example of how unsafe it is to depend upon facsimiles unless one feels certain that they…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 23 of Page View 16 DIE KUNST CIROMANTIA that I have seen and has more the appearance of the work of stencilling than woodengraving partaking somewhat of the style of the execution of the Cvromantia Though…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 24 of Page View DE GENERATIONE CHRISTI 17 Copy II This is of a much larger size The paper is of a superior quality except the outer leaves a single sheet which are of a coarse…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 25 of Page View 18 DE GENERATIONE CHRISTI The paper is of that peculiarly stout texture used in some of the editions of the earlier BlockBooks and in the books printed by Ulric Zell as also…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 26 of Page View VITA CHRISTL I AN EDITION Pr Typ vol ii pp 1423 The thirtytwo small octavo pages are arranged in their order and mounted on one large sheet The facsimiles in the Pr…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 27 of Page View DAS LEBEN DES MENSCHEN A UNIQUE BLOCKBOOK OF FOUR ENGRAVED PAGES Smarr Foro The series of designs in each page are intended to represent the Life of Man in the present and…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 28 of Page View 21 SINGLE WOODENGRAVINGS That XyLocraPHY with block type was practised in FrANCE at an earlier period than is generally supposed is proved by the existence of a small folio leaf pre served…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 29 of Page View 22 FRAGMENTS OF DONATUSES PRINTED ON VELLUM WITH MOVEABLE TYPES These typographical relics are mentioned briefly because I found that in the Principia Typographica the references as to the number of lines…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 30 of Page View 23 SPECULUM HUMANA SALVATIONIS A SERIES OF WOODENGRAVINGS ACCOMPANIED WITH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT I THIRD EDITION SECOND LATIN Printed in part with moveable type and in part from woodblocks Pr Typ vol 1…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
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    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
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    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
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    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 34 of Page View K i i VES PROPERTY OF TI RARY OF CONGI P 4 Fd f i JV V oR y f Rr of ot XA
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859
  • Image 35 of Page View PANTS Foc SAMY pHs Ved PRS EE agin A CA CERES hd 2 7 od AS art Er RAN oe Ga trian ria aa AY Anise pis A i ren AE ER…
    • Contributor: Bibliothèque Impériale (France) - Sotheby, Samuel Leigh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1859

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Title

  • Memoranda relating to the block-books preserved in the Bibliothèque impériale, Paris : made October M.DCCC.LVIII

Names

  • Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, 1805-1861
  • Bibliothèque impériale (France)
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for the author by T. Richards, 1859.

Headings

  • -  Block-books--Bibliography--Catalogs
  • -  Watermarks

Notes

  • -  The illustrations are facsimiles of water-marks.
  • -  LAC ecr 2019-03-25 update (1 card)

Medium

  • 23 p. : illus. ; 36 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Z240.S71 M
  • Z240.S71 M Copy 3 Unnumbered copy. Armorial book-plate of Howard C. Levis.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 03025367

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Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, Bibliothèque Impériale, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Memoranda relating to the block-books preserved in the Bibliothèque impériale, Paris: made October M.DCCC.LVIII. London: Printed for the author by T. Richards, 1859. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/03025367/.

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Sotheby, S. L., Bibliothèque Impériale & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1859) Memoranda relating to the block-books preserved in the Bibliothèque impériale, Paris: made October M.DCCC.LVIII. London: Printed for the author by T. Richards. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/03025367/.

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Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, Bibliothèque Impériale, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Memoranda relating to the block-books preserved in the Bibliothèque impériale, Paris: made October M.DCCC.LVIII. London: Printed for the author by T. Richards, 1859. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/03025367/>.