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GRENVILLE LIBRARY. 
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devotion, and supposed to be the earliest of the li Block-books." 
The cuts are coloured by hand. Considered by Heinecken to be 
the first edition. See his Idee Generate, &c, p. 292. Purchased 
in 1848. 
There are three other editions of this Block-Book shown. 
7. The Book of Canticles. — Block-book. Some copies of this edition 
have a Dutch inscription at the head of the first leaf. This copy 
has the inscription. See Ottley, History of Engraving, vol. i. 
p. 139. Purchased in 1838. 
8. The Book of Canticles. — Block-book, with the cuts coloured by 
hand, and without any inscription. See Heinecken, Idee Generate, 
&c, p. 374 Bequeathed by the Rev. C. M. Cracherode. 
Case II. 
2. Speculum Humanse Salvationis. — Block-book. Grenv. Catal., 
Part I, vol. ii. p. 678. Bequeathed by the Right Hon. Thomas 
Grenville. 
3. Ars Moriendi. — Block-book; the second edition, according to 
Heinecken, Idee Generate, p. 406. Purchased in 1845. 
6. Temptationes Demonis. — A single page printed from a block, 
showing the seven deadly sins and the minor sins which spring 
from them, with the texts of Scripture applicable to each. 
Described in North British Review for Nov. 1846, p. 153. Pur- 
chased in 1842. 
8. A German Almanack, byMagister Johann von Kunsperck, i. e. 
Johann Mliller, called Regiomontanus. — Block- book, produced at 
the press of the celebrated Astronomer Regiomontanus, at Nurem- 
berg, about 1474. Supposed to be the earliest printed almanack. 
Described in Panzer's Annaten, i. p. 76. Purchased in 1855. 
14. Impression from a block, representing the Seven Ages of Man, 
with the Wheel of Fortune in the centre. — Date about 1460. 
Described in the Archceologia, vol. xxxv., 1853. Purchased in 
1846. 
In Case III., containing specimens of the earliest productions 
of the Printing Press in Germany, every article exhibited 
deserves particular attention. 
In looking at these, we stand face to face, with the first 
efforts of that marvellous art which has proved to be the 
most powerful engine of modern civilization, and we are 
astonished at the wonderful perfection which it reached in its 
very infancy. 
The articles exhibited in this case are as follows : — 
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