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 39
wood, so that animpression taken from the stamp on the clay would show theengraved characters in relief. The inscription on the stamp 1 The accompanying translationof a tablet taken from the recordroom of the second Assurbanipal(according to some oriental scholars,the Sardanapalus of the… … Back.An Egyptian Stamp for Impressing Bricks. [From Jackson.] Assyria, son of Sennacherib, king ofAssyria; according to the documentsand old tablets of Assyria, and Sumriand Akkadi, this tablet in the collectionof tablets I wrote, I studied, I explained,and for the inspection of my kingdomwithin my…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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