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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 247

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nsertion of a separate title-page, the printing of the pages on both sides of the paper,and the method of gathering the book in sections of eightleaves, teach us that the book should have been printed at alater date, when these improvements were in general use. Doctor Hartlieb apprises his readers… … § 8 I n SI C a *• s ° I 1 p. BLOCK-BOOKS WITH TEXT. 24I mystical characters, that are almost illegible by reason of badprinting. The illustration annexed, which is the first in thebook, is intended to represent events that happen to peoplewho have certain marks upon the palms of their hands. Atone…

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