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Block book   Listen
noun
Block book  n.  A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Block book" Quotes from Famous Books



... the 15th they had become very common. Circulated at first only in single leaves, at a later period the leaves were folded and combined into quires as in other books and we have the fully developed block book as it is called, each leaf being printed ...
— Books Before Typography - Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 • Frederick W. Hamilton



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