Printing and writing materials: their evolution (1901)
Smith, Adele Millicent · Philadelphia, The author · leaf 60
oring to perfect his art. From Stras-burg he went to Mainz, where his name appearsin 1448, in a record of a legal contract. Here,about 1450, he entered into partnership with Jo-hann Fust or Faust, a wealthy money-lender, whofurnished the means necessary to set up a print-ing-press. In a few years… … INVENTION OF TYPOGRAPHY 29 sixty years old, Gutenberg did not despair, butdetermined to found another office. Some of hisprinting materials still remained to him, and theclerk of the town of Mainz provided him withmoney. He continued his work for some time,but in 1462 all printing in Mainz was…
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