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• A Medieval Mirror: Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1324-1500 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by Adrian Wilson and Joyce Lancaster Wilson (illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• Basels bedeutung für die geschichte der blockbücher (J. H. E. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1909), by Wilhelm Ludwig Schreiber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Defensorium inviolatae virginitatis Mariae (Gellschaft der bibliophilen, 1910), by Franciscus de Retza, Wilhelm Ludwig Schreiber, Bibliothèque nationale (France), and Weimar Gesellschaft der bibliophilen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Early woodcut initials; containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Methuen and co., 1908), by Oscar Jennings (page images at HathiTrust)
• The invention of printing : a series of four lectures delivered in the Lent term of 1897 (J. Murray, 1897), by Charles Henry Middleton-Wake (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Master E.S. and the 'Ars moriendi'; a chapter in the history of engraving during the XVth century, with facsimile reproductions of engravings in the University Galleries at Oxford and in the British Museum (Clarendon Press, 1898), by Lionel Cust, British Museum, and Oxford (England). University. Galleries (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 ... (Printed for the author by W. McDowall, 1858), by Samuel Leigh Sotheby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoranda relating to the block-books preserved in the Bibliothèque impériale. Paris, made October M.DCCC.LVIII. (Printed for the author by T. Richards, 1859), by Samuel Leigh Sotheby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ars bene moriendi. Reproduction photographique de l'édition zylographique du xve siècle. (Delarue, 1900), by Benjamin Pifteau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'exercitium super Pater noster; contribution à l'histoire des xylotypes (L. Dequesne, 1924), by Hector de Backer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biblia pauperum : Unicum der Heidelberger Universitäts-Bibliothek (B. Cassirer, 1906), by Paul Kristeller and Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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 (Printed for the author by W. McDowall, 1858), by Samuel Leigh Sotheby and Samuel Sotheby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue illustré des livres xylographiques. (C.J. Stewart, 1865), by J. Ph. Berjeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbolum apostolicum: blockbuch-unicum der K. Hof- und staatsbibliothek zu München (B. Cassirer, 1917), by Paul Kristeller and Munich. K. Hof- und Staatsbibliothek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biblia pauperum ([London, 1815), by Frederick Collins Wilson, John Wycliffe, and Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mirabilia Romae. (Reichsdruckerei, 1904), by Rudolf Ehwald, Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, and Germany) Herzogliche Bibliothek (Gotha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ars moriendi. (F. Ullmann, 1910), by Otto Clemen and Munich (Germany). K. Hof- und staatsbibliothek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Principia typographica, the Block-books, or, xylographic delineations of sculpture 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 ([s.n.], 1858), by Samuel Leigh Sotheby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbolum apostolicum (B. Cassirer, 1917), by Paul Kristeller and Kgl. Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in München (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ars bene moriendi (Delarue, 1900), by Benjamin Pifteau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die anfänge der druckerkunst in bild und schrift (T. O. Weigel, 1866), by T. O. Weigel and August Christian Adolf Zestermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biblia pauperum ([Thule-tryck], 1925), by Henrik Cornell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Early Woodcut Initials: Containing over Thirteen Hundred Reproductions of Ornamental Letters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, by Oscar Jennings (Gutenberg ebook)

• Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle (A. Cohn; [etc., etc.], 1891), by Wilhelm Ludwig Schreiber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Unbekannte ausgaben geistlicher und weltlicher lieder, volksbücher und eines alten A B C-Büchleins gedruckt von Thiebold Berger (Strassburg 1551-1584). 74 titelfaksimiles in originalgrösse mit 68 abbildungen. (Heitz, 1911), by Paul Heitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of a selected portion of the renowned library at Wilton house, Salisbury, the property of the Right Hon. the Earl of Pembroke, consisting of the illuminated manuscripts, block books, and magnificent early printed books collected by Thomas, earl of Pembroke, 1656-1733, and cataloged by Dr. Dampier, bishop of Ely, in 1776. (Dryden Press, J. Davy & Sons, 1914), by Thomas Herbert Pembroke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The woodcutters of the Netherlands in the fifteenth century. : In three parts: I. History of the woodcutters. II. Catalogue of the woodcuts. III. List of the books containing woodcuts. (University Press, 1884), by William Martin Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes (A. Lévy;, 1881), by Eugène Dutuit, Gustave Pawlowski, and Auguste Dutuit (page images at HathiTrust)

• Confessionale, ou Beichtspiegel nach den zehn Geboten : reproduit en fac-simile d'après l'unique exemplaire conservé au Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum (Nijhoff, 1861), by E. Spanier, J. W. Holtrop, and Rijksmuseum Meermanno-Westreenianum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doctrina Christiana. : The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. A facsimile of the copy in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, (Library of Congress, 1947), by Edwin Wolf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biblia pauperum (J. B. Wetzler], 1867), by Franz Joseph Schwarz, Fr Laib, and Konstanz (Germany) Badisches gymnasium. Bibliothek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mirabilia Romae. (Reichsdruckerei, 1903), by Rudolf Ehwald and Landesbibliothek Gotha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Master E.S. and the 'Ars moriendi'; a chapter in the history of engraving during the XVth century, with facsimile reproductions of engravings in the University Galleries at Oxford and in the British Museum (Clarendon Press, 1898), by Lionel Cust, British Museum, and Oxford (England). University. Galleries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decalogus. Septimania poenalis. Symbolum apostolicum. Drei block-bücher der Heidelberger Universitätsbibliothek in 23 Lichtdrucktafeln und 2 Tafeln in Farbenlichtdruck (B. Cassirer, 1907), by Paul Kristeller and Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Servatius-legende, ein niederländisches blockbuch (B. Cassirer, 1911), by Henri Hymans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Frühdrucke aus dem stifte Einsiedeln: eine Zusammenstellung sämtlicher im Auftrag des Stiftes erschienenen Inkunabeldrucke samt einer Darstellung der Meinradslegenden, soweit sie auf dieselben Bezug nehmen ... Mit 132 Abbildungen im Text. (Benziger & co. a.-g.;, 1912), by Karl Hosef Benziger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Doctrina Christiana. The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. (Library of Congress, 1947), by Edwin Wolf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canticum canticorum. Holztafeldruck von c. 1465. (F. Ullmann, 1910), by Otto Clemen and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wallfahrt Einsiedeln Legend Legende Sanct Sankt Meinrad (Spirgatis, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teutscher Kalendar. (H. Schönsperger, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Liber regum. Nach dem in der K. K. Universitäts-bibliothek zu Innsbruck befindlichen exemplare zum ersten male herausgegeben (O. Harrassowitz, 1892), by Rudolf Hochegger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exercitium super Pater noster : nach der ältesten ausgabe der Bibliothèque nationale zu Paris in 8 lichtdrucktafeln (B. Cassirer, 1908), by Paul Kristeller and Bibliothèque nationale (France) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Monuments de la xylographie (Chez Adam Pilinski, 1882), by Adam Piliński (page images at HathiTrust)
• Passio D.N. Iesu Christi. (Gazette des beaux-arts, 1903), by Victor Masséna Essling (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biblia paǔperǔm. (Reichsdruckerei], 1906), by Gesellschaft der bibliophilen, Rudolf Ehwald, and Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Weissagungen der zwölf Sibyllen. (J.H.E. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1903), by Wilhelm Ludwig Schreiber, Paul Heitz, and Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Canticum canticorum Societatis in honorem Marées poctoris conditae opus tricesimum quartum. (in officina "Ganymedes", 1922), by Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biblia pauperum. (Etlinger, 1892), by Franz Joseph Schwarz, Fr Laib, and Constance. Badisches Gymnasium. Bibliothek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canticum canticorum, reproduced in fac-simile, from the Scriverius copy in the British museum. (Trübner & co., 1860), by J. Ph. Berjeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speculum humanae salvationis : le plus ancien monument de la xylographie et de la typographie réunies (C.J. Stewart, 1861), by J. Ph. Berjeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ars bene moriendi (Delarue, 1900), by Benjamin Pifteau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Doctrina Christiana: The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. (in English, Spanish and Tagalog), ed. by Edwin Wolf (Gutenberg ebook)

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