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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 69

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683,like the hand mouldsthat were in use fortyyears ago, is providedwith a wire spring,to keep the matrixfirmly in position; themould of Amman hasno spring of iron wire and it is nested in a ... . . Type-Casting as Practised in T-r,|. pyramid-Shaped bOX, [From Jost Amman.] which seems to be used as… … THE KEY TO THE INVENTION. 63 that the wood-cut is so small, and that Ammans engravingis so coarse. There are some indications that, in its moreimportant features, the mould of Amman was like that ofMoxon. The little opening in the side of the mould whichrests on the shelf may have been an opening…

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