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 220
en the sheets wereproperly collected, two printed pages faced each other, andwere followed by two pages of blanks. This method of making A section consists of two or more five quarter quires of letter paper sheets folded together, so that one were sewed together, and bound, the leaf will be within… … Fac-simile of the First Page of the Apocalypse.Engraving in the original print is 7% by io>$ American inches. [From Heineken.] 214 BLOCK-BOOKS WITHOUT TEXT. up the book must have given the printer and the binder agreat deal of trouble, but it was an efficient method, and theonly one that should…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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