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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 203

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