CHAPTER V.--The works of Faust and Schœffer.--Legend

of the Printer’s Devil.--Monuments in Germany to Gutenberg, Faust and Schœffer.--Separable Letters first invented in China.--Characteristics of Ancient Printed Books.--The “Composing-stick” and “Setting-rule.”--Early Bindings. 349

APPENDIX.

I.--Account of the Origin of Printing, by J. F. Faust of Aschaffenberg 393

II.------------------------------by Hadrian Junius 404

III.--Dr. Van Der Linde’s Haarlem-Coster-Legend 408

IV.--Cut Wooden, _versus_ Cast Metal Types 415

ERRATA 424

PREFACE.

The germ of the present work was a Lecture delivered by the writer before the Members of the Colombo Athenæum, on the 24th February 1853. That Lecture was fully reported at the time in the _Colombo Observer_, and a few copies were subsequently printed for private distribution. These having been disposed of, the writer’s attention was directed to the preparation of a more extended essay upon the subject. The result of his labours is now submitted to the public. The work makes no pretension to the character of an exhaustive treatise; it is, in fact, but little more than a broad outline of the subject which it ventures to describe; but it is hoped, that a fresh interest may have been imparted to some of the topics touched upon, and that they will be found placed in a light which, if not wholly new, is at any rate somewhat clearer than that in which they have hitherto been exhibited.

W. S.

_Colombo, Ceylon, April_ 29, 1871.

Early Typography.