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 253
f the upper part of thiscurious print, of whichthe British Museum hasthe only known copy. Itis supposed to have beenprinted in the Nether-lands. THE LIFE OF ST.MEINRAT. This book, which hasan introduction of twopages in German, andforty-eight pages of il-lustrations, with briefdescriptions below… … fifrfleir& A Page from the Life of St. Meinrat.Original is 31/» by 5% inches. [From Dibdin.] tion, accompanied by the unrelenting crows. On the pagesthat follow are engravings of the murderers suffering undertorture; it is shown how they were dragged at the heels ofhorses, and were broken and…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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