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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, judgment
encrcaseth, books are dispersed, the Scripture is scene, 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.
encrcaseth, books are dispersed, the Scripture is scene, 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.
