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 41
se ink and paper.These cylinders are ex-amples of printing in itsmost elementary form. The accompanyingillustration, copied fromHansards TypograpJiia,represents an Assyriancylinder which presentsthe same indications ofimpression which havebeen noticed upon thebricks. This cylinder, which is seven… … ![:■:■ ■;.;:,i::!,-.-->:MMlilltllil?! An Assyrian Cylinder. [From Hansard.] ANTIQUE METHODS OF IMPRESSION. 35 to have been made by the imperfect meeting of two mouldingstamps. If the inscription had been cut on the clay, thisdefect would not appear; the vertical lines would have beenconnected,…
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