Today's installment concludes Early History of Printing,our selection from Origin and Progress of Printing by Henry George Bohn published in

The principal movements have been in stereotyping, electrotyping, the improvement of presses, and the application of steam power.Continuing Early

Before the commencement of the sixteenth century, that is, within forty or fifty years of the invention of printing with movable type, upward of

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

We now come to the great epoch of printing: the first invention, of movable metal or fusile types.Continuing Early History of Printing,our

Block-printing ushered in the great epoch. The first block-books were produced somewhere in Holland.Continuing Early History of Printing,our

The next, and not the least important, ingredient in writing and printing is ink.Continuing Early History of Printing,our selection from Origin

The Chinese appear to have the best title to be considered the inventors of both cotton and linen paper.Continuing Early History of Printing,our

The most important of all the ancient materials for writing upon were papyrus, parchment, and vellum; and on these substances nearly all our most