A short history of the art of printing in England (1877)
Powell, Arthur, b. 1853 · London : J. M. Powell, "Printers' Register" office · leaf 15
claim to much of the honour of renderingtypography successful. these two, in August 1457, issued a folio edition ofthe Psalter, beautifully executed, with hand-painted initials. It is the earliestprinted book yet discovered which bears a date. Only six copies are extant,that in the Royal Library at… … THE INTRODUCTION OF PRINTING INTO ENGLAND. 7 it. Fust and Schoeffer afterwards printed a Latin Bible (in 1462) and severalother works. The city of Mainz being, in 1462, besieged and captured by the ElectorAdolph, the workmen employed by the three earliest printers were dispersed,and carried the art…
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