The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time (1890)
Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton, 1848-1897 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 271
n the basket beside him are anumber of types already cast, while on the shelf may be seen 252 The Book. some more moulds, sieves, crucibles, and other implements madeuse of in the industry. The form of character adopted by the first printers inv^ari-ably followed the models of the national scribes.… … Fig. 145. — Tjpe-founder in the middle of tl)c sixteenth century.Engraving by Jost Amman. —half Black letter, half Roman—was employed. In Hollandthe secular hand was the Black letter. In Italy the firstprinters copied the elegant hand of the scribes of that country,and produced the character…
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