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An inquiry concerning the invention of printing : in which the systems of Meerman, Heinecken, Santander, and Koning are reviewed : including also notices of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, the block-books, etc. (1863)

Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836, Berjeau, Jean Philibert, 1809-1891 · London : J. Lilly · leaf 263

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he would not have said of them, ( Ori-gine de llmprimerie/ p. 62) that they are almost all alike : and thatthe figures represented in them are rudely done, in mere outline, in agothic taste, &c. He would have learned that the best of them areby no means rudely executed; and he would have seen…

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