Introductory material
James Dafforne translation
Who was the Inventor of Printing?—Movable Letters in ancient Times.—Block Printing.—Laurent Coster.—Donati and Specula.—Gutenberg’s Process.—Partnership of Gutenberg and Faust.—Schœffer.—The Mayence Bible.—The Psalter of 1457.—The “Rationale” of 1459.—Gutenberg prints by himself.—The “Catholicon” of 1460.—Printing at Cologne, Strasbourg, Venice, and Paris.—Louis XI. and Nicholas Jenson.—German Printers at Rome.—Incunabula.—Colard Mansion.—Caxton.—Improvement of Typographical Processes up to the Sixteenth Century.