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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES
By R. G.
(Continued from p. 441.) (25.) Has there been but a single effort made to immortalise among printers Valentine Tag? Mercier, Abbé de Saint-Léger, in his *Supplément à l'Hist. de l'Imprimerie*, by Marchand, p. 111., accuses Baron Heinecken of having stated that this fictitious typographer set forth the *Fables Allemandes* in 1461. Heinecken, however, had merely quoted six German lines, the penultimate of which is “In Sant Valentinus Tag" intimating only that the work had been concluded on St. Valentine's day. (26.) Can there be any more fruitful source of error with respect to the age of early…
Topics: Bibliography, Early Printed Books, Typography, History of Printing
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