The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 458
acolyiiiaiot. Fig. 340.—Wood-block, cut in France, about 1440,representing an Image of St. James the Great,with one of the Commandments as a Text.(National Library, Paris, Collection of Prints.) PRIXTLXG. 189 … (printing with wooden blocks), while the attempts at tijpofjraphj (printing withtype) made by Gutenberg entirely differed from the other; since the letters,engraved at first on steel points (poim^ons), and afterwards forced into a coppermatrix, reproduced by means of casting in a metal more fusible…
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