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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 533

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Leipsic, 1743, 2See page 395 for illustration of has diagrams of imposition in which primitive screw press. 528 THE TOOLS OF THE EARLY PRINTERS. that they are minutely accurate representations of the pressthen in use, but they will serve to show its general construc-tion. Two features provoke… … Presswork and Composition as done in 1520. [From Blades fac-simile of the print of Badius.] Two upright beams, or cheeks, supporting a thick cross-piece, or cap, made the frame-work. The cap held inplace the screw and spindle which gave the impression, and the descent of the spindle was steadied by…

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