_proof_ of one of them at least being the inventor of printing. As the books which are ascribed to Coster furnish positive evidence of the incorrectness of the story of Cornelius and of the comments of Meerman; and as records, which are now matters of history, prove that neither Gutemberg nor Faust stole any types from Coster or his descendants, the next supporter of the claims of Harlem will have to begin _de novo_; and lest the palm should be awarded to the wrong Lawrence Janszoon, he ought first to ascertain which of them is really the hero of the old bookbinder’s tale. [Illustration] CHAPTER IV. WOOD ENGRAVING IN CONNEXION WITH THE PRESS. Faust and Scheffer’s Psalter of 1457 -- Printing at Bamberg in 1461 -- Books Containing Wood-Cuts Printed there by Albert Pfister -- Opposition of the Wood Engravers of Augsburg to the Earliest Printers Established in that City -- Travelling Printers -- Wood-Cuts in “Meditationes Johannis De Turre-Cremata,” Rome, 1467; and in “Valturius De Re Militari,” Verona, 1472 -- Wood-Cuts Frequent in Books Printed at Augsburg Between 1474 and 1480 -- Wood-Cuts in Books Printed by Caxton -- Maps Engraved on Wood, 1482 -- Progress of Map Engraving -- Cross-Hatching -- Flowered Borders -- Hortus Sanitatis -- Nuremberg Chronicle -- Wood Engraving in Italy -- Poliphili Hypnerotomachia -- Decline of Block-Printing -- Old Wood-Cuts in Derschau’s Collection. Considering Gutemberg as the inventor of printing with moveable types; that his first attempts were made at Strasburg about 1436; and that with Faust’s money and Scheffer’s ingenuity the art was perfected at Mentz about 1452, I shall now proceed to trace the progress of wood engraving in its connexion with the press. In the first book which appeared with a date and the printers’ names--the Psalter printed by Faust and Scheffer, at Mentz, in 1457--the large initial letters, engraved on wood and printed in red and blue ink, are the must beautiful specimens of this kind of ornament which the united efforts of the wood-engraver and the pressman have produced. They have been imitated in modern times, but not excelled. As they are the first letters, in point of time, printed with two colours, so are they likely to continue the first in point of excellence.