Note 48 — Early Typography. CHAPTER III.

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time which was before us.”—Ecclesiastes, i. 9, 10. Some days subsequent to that on which I had printed the description of the process, which, after a careful examination of Mr. Humphreys’ fac-simile, I felt convinced was the one which had been adopted for taking impressions of the moveable types used in the Speculum Humanæ Salvationis, I received an illustrated advertisement sheet of Francis Donnison and Son, Printers’ Engineers of Newcastle-on-Tyne, in which is an engraving of an “Improved Galley Proof Press,” which exactly realises the idea I attempted to convey to my readers on pages 83 and 84.