Invention of
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
作者：De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914
体例：段 章数：47
字数：956,022 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 47 段- _I began this work intending to describe only the mechanical
- Some notice of the material and moral elements needed for th
- The Romans not only had plenty of books but they had a manus
- It is not practicable to make a mould for each character; th
- The date 1423 is evidence only so far as it shows that the b
- Our knowledge of the origin of engraving on wood has not bee
- The illustration on the next leaf is the reduced fac-simile
- The type-foundry attached to the National Printing Office at
- This silence of the early chroniclers should not be construe
- Education controlled by the Church . . . All Books in Latin
- The best and largest books of the stationers were always of
- These schools seem to have been most useful where they were
- The sumptuary laws of the middle ages, which were made to re
- We do not certainly know when and where these blocks were en
- Engraving in the original print is 7-1/8 by 7-1/2 American i
- These are two distinct works, which were often printed and b
- This extract first appeared in an _Appendix to the Library o
- First Second Third Fourth Fif
- TYPE IV. Of this face, the fragments of four copies, and pre
- . . . I have often made use of this process, . . . which is
- This highly valuable art was discovered first of all in Germ
- One fact of real value may be gleaned from the preface of Va
- One of the authorities referred to by Junius is Talesius, bu
- In Holland, this legend of the invention of printing by Cost
- Gutenberg’s Place as an Inventor . . . His Birth at Mentz .
- Lorentz Beildick testified that John Gutenberg, on a certain
- The gravest difficulty in the way of this conjecture is, tha
- The _Bible of 36 lines_ is a large demy folio of 1764 pages,
- INSTRUMENT of a certain day, when Fust produced an account a
- Gutenberg could not have abandoned his printing office with
- It is not necessary to accept Blades’ opinion that the color
- The thorough dishonesty of this statement is abundantly prov
- Pamphilo Castaldi of Feltre, Italy, to whom a statue was ere
- VENICE. John de Spira, so called from Spire, the city in whi
- When the secrets of type-making had been divulged, the print
- Printers soon discovered that printing was an art of too man
- Dordrecht, tradition of printing at, 257
- 218. The date of the termination of the Great Schism is usua
- It would be improper to omit the notice of a new invention.
- [81] Stow says that a Bible “fairly written” was sold in 127
- Antichrist is born in Babylon. He yields himself to lust of
- [160] The process seems impracticable, but whoever carefully
- The accusation of unfair practice, is frequently made by men
- [239] The pilgrimage to ancient Aix-la-Chapelle took place e
- [284] One day when I was reading this interesting passage [o
- [338] It was probably provoked by the false assertion of Joh
- [390] Madden, in his first collection of _Lettres d’un