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 62
ry character or letter really requiredin a full working assortment of types, the type-founder cuts a separate punch and fits up aseparate matrix; but for all the characters orletters which are made to be used together,there is but one mould. Types are of no use,as has been shown, if they cannot be… … 1 The characters D, E, 1 are theprivate reference marks of the type- founder. In this position they can-not be reproduced on the cast type. c£ THE KEY TO THE INVENTION. essential as variety of face, can be most certainly secured bycasting all the types in one mould. All the matrices…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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