Piercy, Willis Duff · New York, Charles E. Merrill company · leaf 27
ach made his own anew. Type was originallymade and set up by hand, piece by piece, so that eventhe production of printed books was very slow. Va-rious mechanical de\ices have been invented from timeto time, (luickening and cheapening the making ofbooks and other printed matter, so that to-day THE… … The Printing Press in Bostox\ at Which Franklin Worked A.D. at Frankfort-on-the-Main, in Germany. But ofthis there is no certainty. Newspapers, however,had their beginnings in Germany and Italy some timehi the latter part of the sixteenth or the first part ofthe seventeenth century. It is behoved…
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