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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 38

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A Stamped Brick from the Ruins of Babylon. [ Itoiii Ii.insard.] ANTIQUE METHODS OF IMPRESSION. … a?** :A.s // ■v,, Fac-simile of the Impression on the Brick. [From Hansard.] 32 ANTIQUE METHODS OF IMPRESSION. on the plastic clay by the sudden pressure of a xylographicblock, is seen by the oblique position of the square inscriptionon the brick,1 in the nicety of the engraving and its uniform…

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