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 66
of Mr. David Bruce, Jr., of New-Yorkcity, and by him patented in the year 1838. Before this date 1 The superfluous metal which the Jet. The finishing of the typesadheres to the cast type, and is is comparatively simple work whichafterward broken off, is also called does not require explanation. THE… … Type-Casting as Practised in 1683. [From Moxon.] published by an early English type-founder,1 can be offeredas a substantially correct representation of the method ofcasting which was practised by all type-founders in the firstquarter of this century. The type-caster took in his left hand the…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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