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Moreover, no entirely xylographic Speculum exists to lend colour to such a theory.
From The Story of Books by Rawlings, Gertrude Burford
The celebrated block-book, the Apocalypse of St. John, generally regarded as the second attempt in xylographic printing, realized £500.
From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by Roberts, W. (William)
Large numbers were printed both from blocks and from type, but xylographic fragments are scarce, and none are known of any date before the second half of the fifteenth century.
From The Story of Books by Rawlings, Gertrude Burford
How and why these xylographic pages appear in a book whose remaining forty-two pages are printed from types is a mystery.
From The Story of Books by Rawlings, Gertrude Burford
There is a popular notion that the so-called inventions of paper and xylographic printing were gladly welcomed by men of letters, and that the new fabric and the new art were immediately pressed into service.
