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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 488

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nsolation of the Sinner. It is a folio of 95 leaves,which exhibits on the last leaf the words Albrecht Pfister zuBamberg. Pfister also printed two editions of the Bible ofthe Poor, one in Latin and one in German, each containingeighteen engravings. His treatment of the old block-bookis that of a… … J/«« after Death. All were printed with the types of theBible of j6 lines, and they were, apparently, his only types. /j.84 ALLEGED INVENTORS OF PRINTING. That Pfister was not a type-founder seems clearly enoughestablished through the fact that he did all his typographicwork with only one size and…

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