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 88
e execution, is undoubtedly of Dutch origin,but he thinks it is the design of a German artist. He placesits date in the same period as that of the Brussels Print,which, according to him, is 1468. Renouvier says that theoutlines of the Berlin Print are in the style of well-knownDutch or Flemish… … The Berlin Print. Holtrop says that the language of the legend in theBerlin print decides its origin; the design is of the Nether- 82 IMAGE PRINTS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. landish school; the language is Flemish, and not Dutch.He further says: These two prints (of Berlin and Brus-sels) complement…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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