Today's installment concludes Early History of Printing,our selection from Origin and Progress of Printing by Henry George Bohn published in
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Printing Improvements Since the Fourteenth Century
The principal movements have been in stereotyping, electrotyping, the improvement of presses, and the application of steam power.Continuing Early
Printing Comes to England
William Caxton, by common consent, is the introducer of the art of printing into England.Continuing Early History of Printing,our selection from
Early Books Printed
Before the commencement of the sixteenth century, that is, within forty or fifty years of the invention of printing with movable type, upward of
Parkman Vol. 3, Chapter 12
When they mounted to the top of the hills, they saw beyond them a rolling sea of dull green prairie, a boundless pasture of the buffalo and the
Origin of the Legend of Dr. Faust
When he sold copies of the Gutenberg Bible, warrants were issued for his arrest as such quantity of similarity could only have been produced by
Movable Type for Printing Invented
We now come to the great epoch of printing: the first invention, of movable metal or fusile types.Continuing Early History of Printing,our
Printing by Wood Blocks
Block-printing ushered in the great epoch. The first block-books were produced somewhere in Holland.Continuing Early History of Printing,our
Development of Ink
The next, and not the least important, ingredient in writing and printing is ink.Continuing Early History of Printing,our selection from Origin