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![[picture: Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-409x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing]")
Pictures from The Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges by William Blades (1824 – 1890), Typographer, Chicago, 1891; I have added the captions.
Title: Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges
Published by: A.C.M. McCLVRG & Co.
City: Chicago
Date: 1891
Total items: 21
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: From the Biblia Pauperum. Block Book. 15th Century.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/008-biblia-pauperum-block-book-q60-364x200.jpg "[picture: From the Biblia Pauperum. Block Book. 15th Century.]")
From the Biblia Pauperum. Block Book. 15th Century.
This image is taken from a fifteenth century “Speculum humanæ salvationis”, probably from the first Latin edition of around 1470. The panels represent the fall of Lucifer and the creation of Eve from Adam, respectively. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Reproduction of title page from Watson's History of Printing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/110-JamesWatson-HistoryOfPrinting-titlepage-q85-119x200.jpg "[picture: Reproduction of title page from Watson's History of Printing]")
Reproduction of title page from Watson’s History of Printing
This reproduction of the title page of The History of the Art of Printing printed by James Watson in 1713 is included in the last chapter (Judges) of the “Pentateuch of Printing.” [more...] [$]
![[picture: Title page from Lewis' Life of William Caxton]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/111-Lewis-LifeOfCaxton-titlepage-q75-118x200.jpg "[picture: Title page from Lewis' Life of William Caxton]")
Title page from Lewis’ Life of William Caxton
The Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton, of the Weald of Kent; the First Printer in England. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Typographia and cherubs setting type]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/typographia-360x200.jpg "[picture: Typographia and cherubs setting type]")
Typographia stands with her robe and chain(??), holding a book out to a cherub with a press; another cherub sets type. [$]
![[picture: Floriated fruit-bowl ornament, coloured]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/111-detail-vintage-fruitbowl-ornament-coloured-q75-320x200.jpg "[picture: Floriated fruit-bowl ornament, coloured]")
Floriated fruit-bowl ornament, coloured
This woodcut design was used as a decorative ornament on the title page of the Life of William Caxton edited by John Lewis. I have coloured it with vintage pastels. [more...] [$]
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