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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 379

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trait 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 Coster.Jacob Van Campen wasinduced to make anotherpainting of the grim feat-ures in a more…

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