The Sister Arts: Or, A Concise & Interesting View of the Nature & History of Paper-making, Printing & Bookbinding ...J. Baxter, 1809 - 104 pages |
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Page 52 - John Schoeffer, the son of Peter, who was also a printer, confirms this account, adding, " Fust and Schoeffer concealed this new improvement by administering an oath of secrecy to all whom they intrusted, till the year 1462, when, by the dispersion of their servants into different countries, at the sacking of Mentz by the Archbishop Adolphus, the invention was publicly divulged.
Page 32 - This man deserves to be restored to the honour of being the first inventor of printing, of which he has been unjustly deprived by others, who have enjoyed the praises due to him alone.
Page 62 - Canterbury, which gives a narrative of the whole transaction, drawn up at the very time. An account of this record was first published in a thin quarto volume, in English, with...
Page 33 - With this ink he was able to print blocks and figures, to which he added letters. I have seen specimens of his printing in this manner: in the beginning he printed on one side only. This was a Dutch book, entitled Spiegal enser Eehoudenisse.
Page 32 - As he was walking in the wood contiguous to the city, which was the general custom of the richer citizens and men of leisure in the afternoon and on holidays, he began to cut out letters on the bark of the beech...
Page 59 - From the period of his mastei's death he spent the folio wing thir* ty years as a merchant abroad, where in 1464, it appears, that he was employed by Edward IV in a public and honourable negociation jointly with one Richard Whitehill, Esq. to transact and conclude a treaty of commerce between the king and his broiner-in* law, the Duke of Burgundy, to whom Flanders belonged.
Page 20 - The vat being furnished with a sufficient quantity of warm water as well as of stuff, two instruments are used to mix them, the one of which is a simple pole, and the other a pole with a piece of board fastened to it rounded, and full of holes. These instruments are employed as often as the stuff falls to the bottom.
Page 34 - ... and none at first were printed in a more perfect manner. As this new species of traffic attracted numerous customers, thus did the profits arising from it increase his love for the art and his diligence in the exercise of it.
Page 57 - Aided by thee, O ART SUBLIME ! our race Spurns the opposing bonds of time and space, With fame's swift flight to hold an equal course, And taste the stream from reason's purest source ; Vice, and her hydra-sous, thy powers can bind, And cast in virtue's mould the plastic mind.
Page 36 - ... reap the fruits of his knavery. It is a known fact that within the twelve months (that is, in the year 1440) he published the Alexandri Galli Doctrinale (a grammar at that time in high repute), with Petri Hispani Tractatibus Logicis, with the same letters which Laurens had used. These were undoubtedly the first products of his press. These are the principal circumstances that I have collected from creditable persons far ad5.