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 540
ed to Rub in moreBlacking upon the Block; yet this he isoften so loth to do, that he will ratherhazard the Content the Colour shall give,than take the pains to amend it: satisfy-ing himself that he can lay the blameupon the Inck-maker. Moxon, Median-ick Exercises, vol. II, pp. 76, 77. THE TOOLS OF… … Reduced Fac-simile of a large Wood-cut, said to be of the Fifteenth Century. [From Jackson.] types and wood-cuts together,2 or in a despisal of the rudeproductions of the block-printers,3 and in the intention of the No exception need be made forthe initial letters of the Psalter of1457. The thin…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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