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 156
ntercession of St. Bridget. Timms and by their pupils in England. Wyatt, in Wyatt, Art of Illumination, p. 14. THE BOOK-MAKERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 149 The copyists of the middle ages may be properly dividedin two classes: the class that considered copying an irksomeduty and that did its work… … The Scriptorium. [From Lacroix.] different texts of books and correcting their errors, did notappear until after the invention of printing. The mechanicaldrudges, who were always most numerous, not only repeatedthe errors of their faulty copies, but added to them. .Errorsbecame so frequent that…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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