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A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical (1881)

Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864, Jackson, John, 1801-1848, Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884 · New York : J. W. Bouton · leaf 143

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ITH FAUST — PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED. — POSSIBILITY OFPRINTING WITH WOODEN TYPES EXAMINED.—SUPPOSED EARLY PRODUCTIONS OP GUTEM-BERG AND FAUSTs PRESS.—PROOFS OF GUTEMBERG HAVING A PRESS OF HIS OWN.—THEVOCABULARY PRINTED AT ELFELD.—GUTEMBERGS DEATH AND EPITAPHS.—INVENTION OFPRINTING CLAIMED FOR LAWRENCE… … EFOEE proceeding to trace the progress of woodengraving in connexion with typography, itappears necessary to give some account of theinvention of the latter art. In the followingbrief narrative of Gutembergs life, I shall ad-here to positive facts; and until evidenceequally good shall be produced…

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