The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 562
uch a manner as to represent the three principal periodsof the discovery of printing. There is no doubt that printing existed in the germ in ancient times ;that it was known and made use of by the ancients. There were stampsand seals bearing legends traced the wrong way, from Tvhich… … 486 PRINTING. intended for the purpose of printing, and wliich resemble the block platesof the fifteentli century. Something very much like the process of printing in movtible type isdesciibed by Cicero in a passage in wbich be réfutes tbe doctrine of Epicuruson the création of the world by atoms :…
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