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The invention of printing : a collection of facts and opinions descriptive of early prints and playing cards, the block-books of the fifteenth century, the legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates (1878)

De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : F. Hart · leaf 101

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dhave been done bywomen in Nurem-berg as effectively asit is done now.1 The illustration ofthe engraver on wood[From jost Amman.] which appears in the same Book of Trades puts before us a man in a richer dress,plainly a workman of higher grade than the stencil painter.He seems to be tracing… … Brcitkopf says that the stencilpainting of prints was done withgreat rapidity by the medieval col-orist. He alludes to an old Ger-man saying of painting the twelveapostles with one stroke, which, no doubt, refers to the expeditiouspainting of a once popular imageprint, of which there is now no…

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