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 502
ers 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 SPREAD OF PRINTING. 497 impressions1… … --//,, The Birth of Eve, from Zainers Edition of the Speculum Salutis. [From Heineken.] supposed to have been taught at Strasburg. He was the firstprinter in Germany who printed a book in Roman characters. Y ■■■>■ 1 These two thousand impressionswere taken from about three hundredcuts—for the…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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