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 358
The statueto Coster, which was soon after put up in the Doctors Gar-den, had no date of invention on the pedestal. To removethese doubts, Seiz2 undertook, in 1742, to furnish a true andrational account of the invention by Coster. The truth andreason of this new description of the invention of… … ^^^^^S^^Slliii^^ The Statue of Coster in the Doctors Garden, [From Seiz.J 352 THE GROWTH OF THE LEGEND. 1428 . . Laurens Coster engraved a few letters upon the bark of a tree. 1429 . . He gave one year to experimental engraving on wood. 1431 . . He printed the Temptations of Demons or Ars Moriendi.…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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