CHAPTER I.

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Origin of the Book--Engravers in relief--The St. Christopher of 1423--Origin of the Xylographs--The Xylographs, _Donatus_, and _Speculum_--The Laurent Coster legend--From block books to movable characters--John Gaensefleisch, called Gutenberg--The Strasbourg trial--Gutenberg at Mayence--Fust and Schoeffer--The letters of indulgence--The Bible--The "Catholicon"--The Mayence Bible--Causes of the dispersion of the first Mayence printers--General considerations.