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 130
ere was a uniformity in the shapes ofthe letters which could not have been made by drawing. The statement that a rude method of printing had beenpractised three centuries before its supposed invention, wasreceived by the bibliographers with incredulity. Authors whohad advocated theories of a… … The Mark ofJacobus Arnoldus, 1345. [From Jackson.] The Mark ofJohannes Meynersen, 1435. [From Jackson.] taken from a model letter. But they had a peculiarity whichcould not have been produced by stenciling, for they showedthe marks of hard indentation in the parchment. Papillon, apractical engraver…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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