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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 168

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lish language has lost tinction to a class of peddlers or clerks its first meaning in the French. It is who had no store or place of business, here used to define a trader who sold but who acted as couriers or agents books and all kinds of writing materials between the buyer and maker. THE… … Seal of the Masters and Scholars of the University of Paris. [From Lacroix.] Before any newly written book could be offered for sale, it mustbe submitted to the rector of the university, who had the power tosuppress it,2 or correct it, and who, if it was approved, fixed its price. The prices…

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