A short history of the art of printing in England (1877)
Powell, Arthur, b. 1853 · London : J. M. Powell, "Printers' Register" office · leaf 10
on expanded, though not to anymaterial extent. Bricks made in Egypt and in Babylon many centuries before theChristian era have been found bearing impressed designs and frequently impressedwritings. One of such bricks is now carefully preserved in the museum of TrinityCollege, Cambridge, another is… … 2 BLOCK PRINTING. perceive the great ends to which it might be applied.* The only one of the ancientnations that appears to have possessed any notions of it at all approachingthose of modern times was the Chinese, that wonderful people which has in somany inventions forestalled the sages of the…
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