Printing and writing materials : their evolution (1904)
Smith, Adele Millicent · Philadelphia : Smith · leaf 42
^ derived its knowledge ofthis art from the East. In Japan the earliest example of block-printingdates from the middle of the eighth century.The Jesuits were the first to print from metaltypes in that country, in the seventeenth century.Because of the avidity with which the Japanesehave taken hold… … CHAPTER II PRINTING IN EUROPE TN Europe until the second half of the four--■- teenth century, books of every kind, letters,and all private and public documents were writtenby hand. Figures and pictures were producedwith either the pen or the brush. Before the invention of typography in themiddle of…
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