The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 587
486 PRINTING. intended for the purpose of printing, and which resemble the block platesof the fifteenth century. Something very much like the process of printing in movable type isdescribed by Cicero in a passage in which he refutes the doctrine of Epicuruson the creation of the world by atoms: Why… … Fig. 387.—Ancient Wood-block Print, cut in Flanders before 1440, representing Jesus Christ after hisFlagellation. (Delbecqs Collection, Ghent.) throwing together, indiscriminately, innumerable forms of letters of thealphabet, either in gold or in any other substance, one can print with…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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