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 301
c printer ofthat century. Whoevercompares them with theponderous theologicalworks that were printedby Mentel, Gutenbergand Schceffer, and bynumerous printers inGermany, and subse-quently in the Nether-lands, will at once seethat this unknown printer made books for boys where otherprinters made… … i. Experimental Letters Drawn on Wood. [From De la Borde.] 1 gent or critical read-er. His process wassuitable only for thecheapest work andthe simplest tastes.It is unnecessaryto prove that thetypes of these books,like the types of theSpeculum, were founded in a mould. They show the samefeatures,…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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