The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 557
ivebindings,—bindings in wood, leather, and parchment, with fastenings ofiron or brass,—still held their ground. In France, however, the binders,whom the booksellers kept in a state of obscurity and servitude, had noteven be able to form themselves into a guild or fraternity. They mightproduce… … Fig. 386.—Banner of the Corporation of Printers-Booksellers of Autun. PRINTING. Who was the Inventor of Printing ?—Movable Letters in Ancient Times.—Block Printing.—Laurent Coster.—Donati and Specula.—Gutenbergs Process.—Partnership of Gutenbergand Faust.—Schoeffer.—The Mayence Bible.—The Psalter…
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