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xylographica en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) Xylographs generally.
    • These block-books, or xylographica, of which upwards of a hundred issues and editions, comprising some thirty separate works, have been recorded, were produced chiefly in the Netherlands and Germany. 2011, Harry G. Aldis, John Carter, E. A. Crutchley, The Printed Book, page 2:
    • The apparent success of this mass-produced merchandise, whether caused by piety, or fear, or simply by the desire to own pretty pictures, was apparently great and these xylographica had a considerably wider market than manuscripts. 1967, Rudolf Hirsch, Printing, Selling and Reading, 1450-1550, page 10: