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 160
n at the end of the roomis sewing together the sections of a book, for sewing wasproperly regarded as a mans work, and a scientific operationaltogether beyond the capacity of the raw seamstress. Thework of the finisher is not represented, but the brushes, theburnishers, the sprinklers and the… … Medieval Bookbinding. fFrom Jost Amman.] 154 THE BOOK-MAKERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. \ and usages are much older than those of printing. Chevilliersays that seventeen professional bookbinders found regularemployment in making up books for the University of Paris,as early as 1292. Wherever books were…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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