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 535
aS always done slowly, with a waste of time which, if allowed in the modern practice ofprinting, would make books of excessive price. Some notionof this waste may be had after an examination of the lettersof the Psalter of 14.57, in which exact work was produced bypainting, not by printing proper.… … THE TOOLS OF THE EARLY PRINTERS. 531 who said that the printers of Mentz printed three hundredsheets a day. This seems a small performance.1 The accurate register of the first books was produced byplacing the white sheet on four fixed points which perforatedthe four corners of the leaf when the…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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