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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 249

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WITH TEXT. date 1468. There is a copy of the German Planetarium in theBritish Museum which contains only twelve printed pages.Berjeau describes it as a small quarto, and says, that althoughit is printed on both sides of the paper, it presents the appear-ance of impression by the frotton. The… … An Illustration from the Calendar of John of Gamundia. [From Berjeau.J the print is an organ-maker; to the right is a copyist; at hisback are two gourmands; in the foreground is a sculptor atwork on a statue; to the left is a goldsmith before his anvil.The descriptions of these works that have been…

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