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ˈblock-book
[f. block n.]
†a. A book of wooden tablets. Obs.
b. A book printed from engraved wooden blocks.
1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v. Book, Block Books..those written on wooden planks or tablets, smoothed for that purpose with an ascia, and a plane. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 109 These Block books excited the idea of the invention of moveable characters. 1859Encycl. Brit. (ed. 8) XVIII. 522 The design and execution are very superior to those of the St. Christopher and the block-books. |