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Bouchot, Henri,1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C.(Edward Clements),1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton,1848-1897 · London, H. Grevel & Co. · leaf 34
enberg. 15 difficult. The movable types used, cut separately in wood, werenot constituted to give an ideal impression. We can besidesunderstand the cost that the making of these characters musthave occasioned, which were designed to stand one by onewithout the possibility of ever making them… … Fig. 9.—Portrait of Gutenberg, from an engraving of the sixteenth century. Coster, continuous researches were brought to bear on thispoint ; but as the invention was said to be his, and as it wasof importance to him not to divulge it. so that he should notforego his profit, it so happened that much…
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