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Title: The Invention of Printing.

Author: Theodore Low De Vinne

Release date: January 25, 2016 [eBook #51034]
Most recently updated: October 22, 2024

Language: English

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THE INVENTION OF PRINTING.

♠ THORWALDSEN’S STATUE OF JOHN GUTENBERG.
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.

Illustrated
WITH FAC-SIMILES OF EARLY TYPES AND WOOD-CUTS.
BY
THEO. L. DE VINNE.
* * Hereby tongues are knowne, knowledge groweth, judgement encreaseth, books are dispersed, the Scripture is seene, the doctors be read, stories be opened, times compared, truth discerned, falshood detected, and with finger pointed, and all, as I said, through the benefit of Printing. Fox’s Acts and Monuments.
NEW-YORK:
FRANCIS HART & CO. 12 & 14 COLLEGE PLACE.
1876.
ENTERED, ACCORDING TO ACT OF CON­GRESS, IN THE YEAR 1876, BY
THEODORE L. DE VINNE,
IN THE OF­FICE OF THE LI­BRAR­IAN OF CON­GRESS AT WASH­ING­TON.
TO
DAVID WOLFE BRUCE,
IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF IN­STRUC­TION ABOUT TYPES, NOT TO BE HAD BY READ­ING, OF ASSIS­TANCE IN STU­DIES, NOT TO BE FOUND IN PUB­LIC LI­BRAR­IES, OF COM­PAN­ION­SHIP MORE PLEA­SANT THAN BOOKS,
THIS WORK IS DEDICATED
BY HIS FRIEND,
THEO. L. DE VINNE.