Note 8 — WILLEM JANSZOON BLAEU
Reading edition
See, for brief descriptions of Blaeu’s press, Stower, C. Printer’s Grammar. London, 1808, pp. 303-304; Hansard, Typography: an historical sketch of the origin and progress of the art of printing. London, 1825, p. 550; and especially Johnson, J., Typographia, or the Printer’s Instructor. London, 1824, vol. II, pp. 500-551. It is from this last named work that illustration p. 16 is taken.