Specimens of type, borders, ornaments, brass rules and cuts, etc. : catalogue of printing machinery and materials, wood goods, etc (1897)
American Type Founders Company · Chicago : American Type Founders · leaf 511
y the deft pen of ascribe* And even if at a later period,the bookmaker so far facilitated theirlabors as to write their text in the or-dinary manner on prepared paper, orwith prepared ink,and so transfer theircopy on to the wood, the labor expend-ed in proportion to the result, and theuselessness… … FIRST STAGE BETWEEN XYLO-GRAPHY AND TYPOGRAPHY. E can imagine him exam-i ining the first page of anI Abecedarium, upon whichwould be engraved in threelines, with a clear space be-tween each character, the letters of thealphabet, and speculating, as Cicero hadspeculated centuries before, on the…
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