xylographica

English

Noun

xylographica pl (plural only)

  1. Xylographs generally.
    • 1967, Rudolf Hirsch, Printing, Selling and Reading, 1450-1550, page 10:
      The apparent success of this mass-produced merchandise, whether caused by piety, or fear, or simply by the desire to own pretty pictures, was apparently great and these xylographica had a considerably wider market than manuscripts.
    • 2011, Harry G. Aldis, John Carter, E. A. Crutchley, The Printed Book, page 2:
      These block-books, or xylographica, of which upwards of a hundred issues and editions, comprising some thirty separate works, have been recorded, were produced chiefly in the Netherlands and Germany.
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