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 378
Scriv-erius may be a portrait ofGerrit Thomaszoon, ap-propriated for the exi-gency. There is a peculiarity in the engraving which plainlyproves that the portrait could not have been painted duringthe lifetime of Coster. The true effigies of Laurenz carriesin his right hand a matrix of the letter A… … Laurens Janszoon Coster. [From Maittaire.J 372 THE DOWNFALL OF THE LEGEND. In 1630, a new portrait of Coster was published by AdrienRooman, with Latin and Dutch verses attached. Boxhornmentioned this engraving in such a mannerthat strangers were led tobelieve it was a statue thathad been erected to…
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