Category: History - European
When we speak of the invention of printing, we mean the invention of the art of multiplying books by means of single types capable of being used again and again in different combinations for the printing of different books. Taking the word printing in its widest sense, it mean...
Before 1462, when the sacking of Mainz by Adolf von Nassau is popularly supposed to have disseminated the art of printing, presses were at work in at least two other German town...
2. CHAPTER I.When we speak of the invention of printing, we mean the invention of the art of multiplying books by means of single types capable of being used again and again in different com...
8. CHAPTER VI.On no subject connected with printing has more been written, and to less purpose, than on the Haarlem invention of printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster. During the fifteenth cent...
3. CHAPTER II.The earliest specimen of printing from movable type known to exist was printed at Mainz in 1454. In making this statement, I do not wish to pass over the claims of France and th...
6. book 275 copies were printed. It is a small folio of 188 leaves, andthirty-six lines to the page, printed in a type which, though Roman, is very Gothic in appearance, and is sometimes called semi-Gothic. The smaller letters have a curious resemb...
7. CHAPTER V.A curious prelude has been discovered within the last few years to the history of the introduction of printing into France. L’Abbé Requin, searching through the archives of Avig...
11. part III. Of the eight belonging to part I., Nos. 2 and 3 are put totheir wrong chapters, and consequently No. 4 is omitted altogether. The diagrams to part II. are wrongly drawn, and in some cases misplaced. The nine diagrams to part III. are t...
15. CHAPTER XII.Too little attention has been paid, in this country at any rate, to the fact that some knowledge about early bookbinding is essential to the student of early printing. At first...
13. CHAPTER X.In 1480, printing was introduced into London by John Lettou, perhaps a native of Lithuania, of which Lettou is an old form. The first product of the press was an edition of John...
17. book one sheet. A book on Book Collecting, lately published, gives thefollowing extraordinary remarks on finding the size:—“The leaves must be counted between signature and signature, and then if there are two leaves the book is a folio, if four a...
12. CHAPTER IX.As early as 1664, when Richard Atkyns issued his _Original and Growth of Printing_, the assertion was put forward that printing in England was first practised at Oxford. ‘A book...
9. CHAPTER VII.The first book printed in Spain, according to some authorities, is a small volume of poems by Bernardo Fenollar and others, written in honour of the Virgin on the occasion of a...
14. CHAPTER XI.The introduction of printing into Scotland did not take place till 1508, in which year a printer named Andrew Myllar set up his press in the Southgait at Edinburgh. At this time...
16. CHAPTER XIII.It is exactly one hundred years since Panzer, “the one true naturalist among general bibliographers,” published the first volume of his _Annales Typographici_, and in this perio...
10. CHAPTER VIII.The history of the Introduction of Printing into England is comparatively clear and straightforward; for we have neither the difficulties of conflicting accounts, as in the case...
5. CHAPTER IV.Italian historians have several times attempted to bring forward Pamphilo Castaldi as the inventor of printing. It is little use to recapitulate here the various unsupported ass...
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