. An inquiry concerning the invention of printing : in which the systems of Meerman, Heinecken, Santander, and Koning are reviewed : including also notices of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, the block-books, etc. . ed about 1300. 39. ♦ t * The Feast of the Chil- Christ bearing the Souls Jacobs Vision of thedren of Job. of the blessed in his Ladder. Mantle. The front figure of Christ, in the compartment in the centre, hasa considerable share of grandeur. It is introduced at p. xxix. of theabove work of Dr. Dibdin. The design of Jacobs Vision of theLadder, which also possesses merit,
. An inquiry concerning the invention of printing : in which the systems of Meerman, Heinecken, Santander, and Koning are reviewed : including also notices of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, the block-books, etc. . ed about 1300. 39. ♦ t * The Feast of the Chil- Christ bearing the Souls Jacobs Vision of thedren of Job. of the blessed in his Ladder. Mantle. The front figure of Christ, in the compartment in the centre, hasa considerable share of grandeur. It is introduced at p. xxix. of theabove work of Dr. Dibdin. The design of Jacobs Vision of theLadder, which also possesses merit, will be found copied at page126 of my own former work. 40. ♦ u * The Daughter of Sion The Reward of the St. John listening to thecrowned by her Spouse. Righteous. Christ is about converse of an Angel. to place a Crown upon the Head of a Person who is kneeling beforehim. This last leaf is copied entire in Heinecken, Idee Generate,p. 393. I have here given the two figures of St. John and the Angel,which are remarkable for their sober dignity of style, and of them-selves are enough to shew that the person who made the designs forthis work, merited in his time the appellation of master. 214 BIBLIA PAUPERUM. [chap. Of this work, in forty pieces, with the text in the Latin language,Heinecken describes four different editions, besides another, aug-mented by ten prints, which he terms the fifth edition. He declareshimself, however, unable to determine which is the earliest. If, says he, I place them one after the other, it is only to explain thedifference between them; for I must candidly confess, that I neither knowwhich is the original, nor the epoch of either of the five. The engravers havecopied each other with such exactness in preparing these editions, (he speakshere of the four first editions with forty prints) that there is very little dif-ference between one and the other: but there is some ; and those who exa-mine them carefully, stroke by stroke, will find several s
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