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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 380

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produced anew likeness ofthe inventor, andclaimed for it asuperior truth-fulness. In thesame year, 1765, Van Osten de Bruyn published an engravingof the same head, with this explanation: Laurens Janszoon,sheriff, of the town of Haarlem, inventor of the noble art ofprinting . . . after an old… … The Laurens Janszoon of Meerman. [From Meerman.] 374 THE DOWNFALL OF THE LEGEND. or for whom the vellum pedigree was continued. He wasequally interested with the originator of the pedigree, GerritThomaszoon, in upholding the legend. Whether Croon wasignorant of the fact that Laurens Janszoon, the…

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