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 544
,very thin, flexible and highly polish- rubbed with lime and pumice-stone,ed; the parchment was thick and and repeatedly dried and wet, andhorn-like; but each substance was rubbed and stretched, until the sur-prepared by nearly the same process, face was made faultlessly smooth. THE TOOLS OF THE… … A Print of 1475, probably the work of an amateur engraver. [From Heineken.] < manuscript copy.2 From the frequency and earnestness ofthe complaints then made concerning faulty manuscript texts, 1 See page 469 for the testimonyof Schoeffers proof-reader. 2 The copyists, underpaid by…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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