The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 563
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 :… … / I I I \ T^^^ ////Il rrr Fig. 387.—Ancient Wood-block Print, eut in Flanders before 1440, representing Je:FlageUatîon. {Delbecqs Collection, Ghent.) i Christ after fais throwing together, indiscriminately, innumerable forms of letters of thealphabet, either in gold or in any other substance, one…
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