Transcriber’s Notes The List of Illustrations at the beginning of the book was created by the transcriber. Placement of Illustrations have been slightly adjusted to better coordinate with the text. Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling such as “flat-bed/flat bed” and “letter-press/letterpress” have been maintained. Page 31: Added double quote to “Double”. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing m, by Robert Hoe