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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 501

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issal, with a text in Pointed Gothic with the money they had made from types of five-line pica body, probably the sale of manuscript and printed the largest text types ever used in a books. Madden says that the mon- book. It was admirably printed and astery of Weidenbach was not only rubricated.… … Fac-simile, reduced, of part of Koburgers Map of Europe. [Photographed from Mr. Braces copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle.] of 1493, a large and thick folio, edited or compiled by Hart-mann Schedel, as a summary of the history, geography andwonders of the world. It contains more than two thousand THE…

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