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 192
othe making of books: an engraverwould properly belong to the guild.The words taillcrcs ymagiers suggestengraving quite as clearly as form-schneider does in German. THE PREPARATIONS FOR PRINTING, I85 neither the doctors of the universities nor the book-makers ofParis ever attempted to print books… … Reduced Fac-simile of the Dance of Death, as shown in the Nuremberg Chronicle. [Photographedfrom Mr. Bruces Copy.] fact should be fairly considered, for it is the proper explana-tion of the curious and childish literature of the block-bookswhich followed the printed images. \ Early printed work was…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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