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 234
lined to ascribe them to a German. The style of the drawing is not unlike what we see in illuminated French manuscripts of the middle of the fifteenth century; and as the only two engraved words which occur in the volume are in French, I am rather inclined to suppose that the artist who made the… … Letter K of Grotesque Alphabet.Original is 3 % by 4^ inches. [From Holtrop.] 228 BLOCK-BOOKS WITHOUT TEXT, certainly ever addressed his mistress with such an air. He holds whatappears to be a ring as gracefully as a modern Frenchman holds asnuff-box, and upon the scroll before him are engraved a…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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