Inside Out Library

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 413

An illustration from 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, leaf 413
Double-pica body.The types on Double-pica body are those of theDonatus of 1451 and theBible of 36 lines; the typeson Paragon body are thoseof the Bible of 4.2 lines.[From De ia Borde.] The appearance of these types in the Bibles is presumptive evidence that the printerof the Bibles was the printer… … 1 The text letters are of the formknown to librarians as lettres desomme, or letters of account, whichmay be understood as the carelesslymade letters then used in books ofaccount. The letters of the largelines are of the form known as let-ires de forme, or letters of precis-ion, the angular and…

Printing -- History Origin and antecedents

Internet Archive · California Digital Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from 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

More like this