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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 542

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TOOLS OF THE EARLY PRINTERS. 537 in request for quartos and octavos. The largest size seemsto have been royal, about 20 by 25 inches. The Cost Bookof the Ripoli Press gives names and prices to nine distinctqualities or sizes of paper, but it does not define the weightsand measurements. The smallest… … The Fall of Lucifer, as shown in Zainers Edition of the Speculum Salutis.An Illustration of the Degradation of Engraving on Wood. [From Heineken.] The paper made for the Bibles of Gutenberg and for the *earlier books was the ordinary writing paper of the period.Made from linen rags that had not…

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