- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Found in Museum store with other printing blocks from Oxford University Press for the works of R.T. Gunther.
- Object type
- Printing block
- Dimensions
- Height: 23mm Width: 56mm Depth: 70mm Weight: 78g
- Inventory No
- 18492
- Accession Number
- 2022-
Description
(Metal?) relief printing block mounted on wood, with a paper backing. The block was used to print a line drawing of a naviculum sundial that appeared on p.41 of R.T. Gunther's Early Science in Oxford, vol.2 (Astronomy) which appeared in 1923.
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