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 494
ables and words. They were pierced through the sides, that theycould be conjoined by a wire and kept in line. It is to be regrettedthat these types, the first of the kind, should have been lost.2 1 In another book Spiegel says 1442. Strasburg at the close of the sixteenth * Meerman, Origincs… … The Arms of the Typothetae. fFrom Hansard.] 4gO ALLEGED INVENTORS OF PRINTING. These impudent falsifications of history would have beensoon forgotten if they had not been renewed in the seven-teenth century, by one James Mentel, a physician of Paris,the supposed descendant of John Mentel, who…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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