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 112
ar as it should be. Some of the figures are exceedinglygross, although they are drawn with admirable skill and spirit. These innovations had but a transient popularity. Thepeople played cards, not for instruction in art, science or 1 The industry of Jost Amman pupil George Keller, that during was… … French Card of the Fifteenth Century.[From Lacroix.]
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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