Littell's Living Age/Volume 126/Issue 1622/Miscellany

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A curious slip, at least, so we presume it to be, occurs in a catalogue issued a short time ago by a well-known bookseller. A work on Xylography — block-printing at the beginning of the fifteenth century — is catalogued, which is said to contain "sixty-nine engravings either from wood or metal, twelve of which bear inscriptions representing scenes of Christian mythology, figures of patriarchs, saints, devils, and other dignitaries of the Church."




The Athenæum states that it is proposed to calendar and publish the records of the Scotch Privy Council from the beginning of Queen Mary's reign down to the Union.