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 254
he moral BLOCK-BOOKS WITH TEXT. 247 of this story is unmistakable: it is an awful crime to kill anecclesiastic. The publication of so large a book to enforce soplain a truism is an intimation that some of the laity neededforcible illustrations of the danger of abusing the clergy. THE DANCE OF… … *\tt« &e &Ttr *tev m^5 A Page from the Heidelberg Dance of Death.Original is 5 y2 by 8 % inches. [From Dibdin.] Lutzelberger. The characters or personages in this block-bookare the same as those in the famous painting once at Basle. library, is entirely xyro—graphic, with a text inGerman;…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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