The invention of printing : a collection of facts and opinions descriptive of early prints and playing cards, the block-books of the fifteenth century, the legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates
A history of early printing by New York printer Theodore Low De Vinne, published by Francis Hart in 1878 for printers, bibliographers and collectors. Its plates reproduce fifteenth-century woodcuts in facsimile: block-book Bible scenes, letter-cutters at work, blackletter text pages, scrolled banderoles and diagram trees, all in hard outline useful for borders, lettering models and figure vignettes.
