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Pigskin binding with blind tooled decoration and the written name of the original owner

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Pigskin binding with blind tooled decoration and the written name of the original owner
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John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 06:40:07 JST John Overholt

15th century block books, printed entirely from woodblocks rather than type, are rare—about 650 examples survive. Rarer still is one that’s lived for five and a half centuries in its original binding. https://rylandscollections.com/2024/11/02/incunabula-cataloguing-project-viii-blockbooks-part-2-its-the-apocalypse-again-and-the-paupers-bible/

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