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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 360

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se is a romantic fiction.But, in the year 1760,Daniel Schoepfiin, an emi-nent scholar of Strasburg,wrote a valuable contribu-tion to the history of ty-pography, under the titleof Vindicice Typographies.Meerman was provoked toemulation. He had not be-lieved in the legend, but he thought that he… … Medals in Honor of Coster. I.From Seiz.] 354 THE GROWTH OF THE LEGEND. he was in possession of the facts, he began to write the OriginesTypographical. The entire book was published in 1765, witha portrait of Lourens Coster by the eminent Dutch engraverHoubraken, and a portrait of Meerman himself by…

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