The Pentateuch of printing, with a chapter on Judges (1891)
Blades, William, 1824-1890, Reed, Talbot Baines · Chicago : A. C. McClurg and company · leaf 44
Genesis. In the later Block-books, engraved sentences and even half-pages ofexplanation are seen. The dislike of wood engravers to cut letters is thesame now as it was four centuries and a-half ago, the mechanical nature ofsuch work being distasteful to any one with artistic feeling. The… … scriptorium MONK AT WORK. (From Lacroix.) would easily lead to the attempt to utilise the letters separately. Thuswe float along the stream of gradual development, until we reach movabletypes, properly termed Typography. This was never an invention pureand simple which suddenly enlightened the mind…
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