The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 563
azard the twenty-two forms, which he determined to turnto account, at any rate as a model for the counterfeit edition he intended topublish. In cast-iron tj^pe. these forms could not have weighed more thansixty pounds ; in wooden type, not half as much ; if we add to these thecomposing-sticks, the… … Fig. 391.—Portrait of Gutenberg, from an Engraving of the Sixteenth Centun.-.(Imperial Library of Paris, Print Room.) could be no question, since the impressions produced at Haarlem were madewith a pad and by hand, as is still the case with playing-cards and prints. It remains now to discover who…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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