Early woodcut initials : containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (1908)
Jennings, Oscar · London : Methuen · leaf 21
s of its evolution towardsits final formula and expression as an impression frommovable type. This brings us to the in\ention of printing, but it mustbe noted that printing, wiiich revolutionised in so many waysthe world, did not immediately put an end to the professionsof the rubricator and… … CHAPTER I BLOCK-BOOKS: THE INVENTION OF PRINTING:THE PSALTER OF MAYENCE |RINTING, with the discovery or inven-tion of which the name of Gutenbergis intimately associated, goes back tothe year 1454, or, if we accept the recentdiscovery of an almanac which can onlyrefer to 1448, some six years…
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