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 366
with this inscrip-tion: The house of Coster: thebirthplace of typography. Thedate of this birth is judiciouslyomitted. The tablet of the oldCoster house contained an inscrip-tion in honor of Laurens Coster,sheriff, of Haarlem, inventor of typography about the year1430. The vitality of the legend… … The Statue on the NewMonument to Coster. [From Noordziek.] XIX Ifp Jkttm&tH af i{p Jegentu The Vague Inscription on the Last Monument.. .Relics in the Costerian Museum... Fac-simile ofJanszoons Autograph.. .The Coster Pedigree.. .Made by Gerrit Thomaszoon.. .Legend beganwith the Pedigree..…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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