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The Invention of Printing

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Statue of John Gutenberg ♦

Surface Exposed to Impression by Copper-plate method ♦

Surface Inked and Exposed to Impression by Typo­graph­ic method ♦

Surface Exposed to Impression by Lith­o­graph­ic method ♦

Face of a large Type, showing how the Letter is placed on the body ♦

Side view of Canon body ♦

Small Pica, Agate and Diamond body ♦

View of body inclined to show the face ♦

Stamped Brick from Babylon ♦

Fac-simile of Impression on brick ♦

Egyptian Stamp for impressing bricks ♦

Assyrian Cylinder ♦

Old Roman Stamps ♦

Roman Stamps ♦

Roman Scrinium and rolls of papyrus ♦

Types of Irregular Body ♦

Punch ♦

Matrix ♦

Illustrations of Type-bodies ♦

Type-Mould, without matrix ♦

One-half of the Mould ♦

The other half of the Mould ♦

Type-casting as practised in 1683 ♦

Type-casting as practised in 1564 ♦

Print of St. Christopher ♦

Print of the Annunciation ♦

Print of St. Bridget ♦

Flemish Indulgence Print ♦

Brussels Print ♦

Berlin Print ♦

Playing Card of the fifteenth century ♦

Print Colorer ♦

Engraver on Wood ♦

Chinese Playing Cards ♦

Early French Playing Cards ♦

French and German Playing Cards of the fif­teenth and six­teenth cen­tu­ries ♦

Fac-simile of part of a Chi­nese Book ♦

Chinese Types made in London ♦

Mark of Jacobus Arnoldus, 1345 ♦

Mark of Johannes Meynersen, 1435 ♦

Mark of Adam de Walsokne, 1349 ♦

Mark of Edmund Pepyr, 1483 ♦

Mark of an unknown person ♦

Japanese Method of Making Paper ♦

Paper-Mill of the sixteenth century ♦

Scriptorium of the middle ages ♦

Penmanship of the ninth century ♦

Manuscript of the fifteenth century ♦

Medieval Bookbinding ♦

Medieval Illuminator ♦

Sumptuously Bound Book ♦

Medieval Book with covers of oak ♦

Book Cover in Ivory, Byzantine style ♦

Seal of the University of Paris ♦

English Horn-Book ♦

English Clog ♦

Holbein’s Dance of Death ♦

Dance of Death, as shown in the Nurem­berg Chron­i­cle ♦

Last page of the Bible of the Poor ♦

First page of the Bible of the Poor, as made by Wal­ther and Hur­ning ♦

First page of the Apocalypse ♦

First page of the Canticles ♦

Story of the Blessed Virgin ♦

Exercise on the Lord’s Prayer ♦

Illustration from the Book of Kings ♦

Letter K of Grotesque Alphabet ♦

Page from the Apostles’ Creed ♦

Page from the Eight Rogueries ♦

Page from the Antichrist ♦

Page from the Ars Memorandi ♦

Page from the Ars Moriendi ♦

Chiromancy of Doctor Hartlieb ♦

Calendar of John of Gamundia ♦

Page from the Wonders of Rome ♦

Pomerium Spirituale ♦

Temptations of the Devil ♦

Life of St. Meinrat ♦

Heidelberg Dance of Death ♦

German Donatus, from a block in the Na­tion­al Li­bra­ry at Paris ♦

Fragment of an early Donatus ♦

Early Dutch Horarium ♦

Imprint of Conrad Dinckmut ♦

First page of Speculum Salutis ♦

Last page of Speculum Salutis ♦

Types of Speculum Salutis ♦

Types in third edition of Speculum ♦

Types of Fables of Lorenzo Valla ♦

Types of Peculiarities of Criminal Law ♦

Types of Epitaphs of Pope Pius II ♦

The Enschedé Abecedarium ♦

Experimental Letters drawn on wood ♦

Types from Experimental Letters ♦

Frisket, Tympan and Bed of an early Euro­pean Print­ing Press ♦

Paper-marks: seven illustrations ♦

Types of Jacob Bellaert ♦

Types of John Brito ♦

Map of the Netherlands ♦

Scriverius’ Portrait of Coster ♦

Statue of Coster in Doctors’ Garden ♦

Medals in honor of Coster ♦

Statue of Coster on the monument ♦

Autograph of Laurens Janszoon ♦

House of Coster ♦

Portrait of Laurens Janszoon Coster ♦

Spurious Portrait by Van den Berg ♦

Portrait attributed to Van Oudewater ♦

The Laurens Janszoon of Meerman ♦

Medieval Press ♦

Type-mould of Claude Garamond ♦

Types of the Donatus at­tri­but­ed to Gu­ten­berg at Stras­burg ♦

Types of Donatus of 1451 ♦

De la Borde’s Illustration of Types ♦

Holbein’s Satire on the Indulgences ♦

Letter of Indulgence dated 1454 ♦

Types of Bible of 36 Lines ♦

Abbreviations of Bible of 36 Lines ♦

Portrait of John Fust ♦

Types of Bible of 42 Lines ♦

Portrait of John Gutenberg ♦

Types of Letter of Indulgence of 1461 ♦

Types of Catholicon of 1460 ♦

Types of Celebration of the Mass ♦

Types of Mirror of the Clergy ♦

Colophon written by Peter Schœffer ♦

Types of the Psalter of 1457 ♦

Colophon of the Psalter of 1457 ♦

Types of the Rationale Durandi ♦

Types of the Bible of 1462 ♦

Trade-mark of Fust and Schœffer ♦

Types of Constitutions of Clement V ♦

Portrait of Peter Schœffer ♦

Types of the Grammar of 1468 ♦

Illustration from the Book of Fables ♦

Arms of the Typothetæ ♦

Part of Koburger’s Map of Europe ♦

The Birth of Eve, Zainer’s ♦

Statue of Gutenberg at Strasburg ♦

Type of the fifteenth century ♦

Printing Office of sixteenth century ♦

Hand Press of Jodocus Badius ♦

Inking Balls of sixteenth century ♦

Large wood-cut of fifteenth century ♦

The Fall of Lucifer, Zainer’s ♦

A Print of 1475 ♦

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