Definition of Block book. Meaning of Block book. Synonyms of Block book

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Definition of Block book

Block book
Block book Block" book` A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.

Meaning of Block book from wikipedia

- with prayers, indulgences and other material; the block book was an extension of this form. Block books are very rare, some editions surviving only in...
- by the art term woodcut, except for the block books produced mainly in the 15th century. According to the Book of the Southern Qi, in the 480s, a man named...
- "Book review of 'For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies', by Robert Irwin." New Statesman. Eagleton, Terry. Eastern Block (book review...
- of picture Bibles beginning probably with Ansgar, and a common printed block-book in the later Middle Ages to visualize the typological correspondences...
- Printing-presses were used from about 1480 for European prints and block-books, and before that for woodcut book illustrations. Simple weighted presses may have been...
- County Block Book Maps, Volume 54, Pages 294-295. Pinelawn (or Pine Lawn) Blocks 2 (PDF and JPG) and 3 (PDF and JPG). Harris County Block Book Maps. Volume...
- Block booking is a system of selling multiple films to a theater as a unit. Block booking was the prevailing practice in the Hollywood studio system from...
- New Kids on the Block (also initialized as NKOTB) is an American boy band from Dorchester, M****achusetts. The band consists of brothers Jonathan and Jordan...
- In cryptography, a block cipher mode of operation is an algorithm that uses a block cipher to provide information security such as confidentiality or authenticity...
- The Latin word codex, meaning a book in the modern sense (bound and with separate leaves), originally meant 'block of wood'. An avid reader or collector...