- 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...