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Block book

Block books or blockbooks, also called xylographica, are short books of up to 50 leaves, block printed in Europe in the second half of the 15th century as woodcuts with blocks carved to include both text (usually) and illustrations. The content of the books was nearly always religious, aimed at a popular audience, and a few titles were often reprinted in…

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3D printing
1986
Aquatint
1772
Chromolithography
1837
Daisy wheel printing
1889
Digital printing
1991
Dot matrix printing
1925

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  • ISBN ISBN (identifier)

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Block book

Nodes62
Edges61
Triples194
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.032258
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Block book

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related to Texts · 54
Block book → Aelius Donatus Ars, Allan, Apocalypse, Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis, Ars Memorandi, Ars Moriendi, Art, Bavarian State Library, Bavarian State LibraryBiblia Pauperum, Bavarian State LibraryExercitium Super, Bible, Bibliothek Otto Schäfer, Cambridge Digital Library, Canticum Canticorum, Congress, Dance, Death, Dying, Four Gospels, Germany
related to Sources · 48
Block book → Adrian Wilson, Allan Stevenson, An ABC, An Introduction, Arthur, Berkeley, Bilderfolgen, Blockbooks, Blockbücher, Book Collectors, British Library, California Press, Cambridge University Press, Catalog, Chemical Technology, Chemistry, China, Civilization, Delaware, Dover Publications
related to Origin · 16
Block book → AD, Baron Zouche, Buddhist, China, Chinese, Europe, European, He, However, Mongol Empire, Robert Curzon, Some, The, There, Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, Woodblock
related to External links · 13
Block book → Bamberg State LibraryHeidelberg University, Bavarian, CongressDigitized, From, German, Lessing, Library, Links, Rare Book, Rosenwald Collection, Sixty-six, Special Collections Division, Wikisource Blockbücher
related to Dates and locations of printing · 10
Block book → Allan, Block, Determining, Early, Gutenberg, In, Stevenson, The, Wilhelm Ludwig Schreiber, Written
related to Description · 7
Block book → Bible, Block, Donatus, Greek, Latin, Some, The
related to Printing method · 7
Block book → Block, Chinese, In, It, Several, The, When
related to Collections · 6
Block book → Because, Block, Blockbücher, Mittelalters, Sabine Mertens, The
3D printing · 1
Block book → 1986
Aquatint · 1
Block book → 1772

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block books library printing printed state bavarian examples text germany book china one paper europe century woodcuts chinese netherlands copies

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Block book3D printing19861.00infobox
Block bookAquatint17721.00infobox
Block bookChromolithography18371.00infobox
Block bookDaisy wheel printing18891.00infobox
Block bookDigital printing19911.00infobox
Block bookDot matrix printing19251.00infobox
Block bookDye-sublimation19571.00infobox
Block bookEtchingc. 15151.00infobox
Block bookHectograph18601.00infobox
Block bookHot metal typesetting18841.00infobox
Block bookInkjet printing19501.00infobox
Block bookIntaglio (printmaking)14301.00infobox
Block bookLaser printing19691.00infobox
Block bookLithography17961.00infobox
Block bookMezzotint16421.00infobox
Block bookMimeograph18851.00infobox
Block bookMovable type10401.00infobox
Block bookOffset printing18751.00infobox
Block bookPhotostat and rectigraph19071.00infobox
Block bookPhototypesetting19491.00infobox
Block bookPintadera10,000 BC1.00infobox
Block bookPrinting pressc. 14401.00infobox
Block bookRelief printing16901.00infobox
Block bookRotary press18431.00infobox
Block bookScreen printing19111.00infobox
Block bookSolid ink printing19721.00infobox
Block bookSpark printing19401.00infobox
Block bookSpirit duplicator19231.00infobox
Block bookThermal printingc. 19721.00infobox
Block bookThermal-transfer printing19811.00infobox

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