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 361
ype-founding, and,unfortunately, he was tooconceited to accept cor-rection or instruction evenfrom the hands of expertslike Enschede, Fournierand others. In trying tomake facts suit theories, hewent so far as to order theengraver of a fac-simile tostretch the vellum of a Do-natits so that the… … Medals in Honor of Coster. [From Sciz.] Typography was inventedby I .ouwerijs Janszoen, also known as Laurens Coster, who, at varioustimes between 1422 and 1434, filled the offices of sheriff, treasurer andsacristan. He was of noble blood, but a bastard of one of the THE GROWTH OF THE LEGEND. 355…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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