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 572
those pieces laid in apress, those forms which came to pieces, that lead sold or wroughtby a goldsmith, were, as they wished it to be supposed, only intended to beused for printing ornaments on the frames of looking-glasses ! Would it not have been surprising that the pilgrims who were tovisit… … Fig. 394.—Interior of a Printing-office in the Sixteenth Century, by J. Amman. derived from it so much profit having anything to do with printing was,no doubt, also questionable ; but we have not been able to solve the enigma,and wait to clear up the difficulty till a new incunable {incunabula,…
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