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The Invention of Printing.: A Collection of Facts and Opinions, Descriptive of Early Prints and Playing Cards, the Block-Books of the Fifteenth Century, the Legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the Work of John Gutenberg and His AssociatesDe Vinne, Theodore Low

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The Invention of Printing.: A Collection of Facts and Opinions, Descriptive of Early Prints and Playing Cards, the Block-Books of the Fifteenth Century, the Legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the Work of John Gutenberg and His Associates

Name: The Invention of Printing.: A Collection of Facts and Opinions, Descriptive of Early Prints and Playing Cards, the Block-Books of the Fifteenth Century, the Legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the Work of John Gutenberg and His Associates
Author: De Vinne, Theodore Low

De Vinne, Theodore Low

Incunabula -- Bibliography; Printing -- History -- Origin and antecedents

General Appreciation of Pictures . . . Beginning of the Block-Books
 . . . Popularity during the Fifteenth Century . . . Neglected
 afterward . . . Childish in Character . . . The Bible of the Poor
 . . . Its Age as a Manuscript . . . Its Popularity . . . The First
 Edition . . . Its Designs and Engravings . . . Explanations of
 Fac-similes . . . Description of Printing . . . Not Printed by the
 Frotton . . . Anachronisms in Design . . . Dissimilarity of the Copies
 . . . Blocks destroyed in 1488 . . . Price of Copies . . . Description
 of German Edition of 1470 . . . The Apocalypse . . . Description of
 Illustrations . . . Probably of German Origin . . . The Canticles
 . . . Description of Fac-simile . . . Its Anachronisms . . . Its
 object . . . Quality of Engraving . . . The Story of the Blessed
 Virgin . . . Its Object . . . Description of Fac-simile . . . Its
 Absurdities . . . Exercise on the Lord’s Prayer . . . Description of
 Fac-simile . . . Singular Perversion of the Prayer . . . The Book of
 Kings . . . Description and Fac-simile . . . The Grotesque Alphabet
 . . . A Mysterious Book . . . The Apostles’ Creed . . . The Eight
 Rogueries.

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 I presume that nothing is in this life more useful to a man than to
 acknowledge his Creator, his condition, his own being. Scholars may
 learn this from the Scriptures, and the laymen shall be taught by the
 books of the laymen, that is by the pictures. Wherefore I have thought
 fit, with the help of God, to compile this book for laymen to the
 glory of God, and as an instruction for the unlearned, in order that
 it may be a lesson both to clerks and to laymen.

 _Preface to the Speculum Salutis._

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History

The Invention of Printing.: A Collection of Facts and Opinions, Descriptive of Early Prints and Playing Cards, the Block-Books of the Fifteenth Century, the Legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the Work of John Gutenberg and His Associates

De Vinne, Theodore Low

Incunabula -- Bibliography; Printing -- History -- Origin and antecedents

General Appreciation of Pictures . . . Beginning of the Block-Books
 . . . Popularity during the Fifteenth Century . . . Neglected
 afterward . . . Childish in Character . . . The Bible of the Poor
 . . . Its Age as a Manuscript . . . Its Popularity . . . The First
 Edition . . . Its Designs and Engravings . . . Explanations of
 Fac-similes . . . Description of Printing . . . Not Printed by the
 Frotton . . . Anachronisms in Design . . . Dissimilarity of the Copies
 . . . Blocks destroyed in 1488 . . . Price of Copies . . . Description
 of German Edition of 1470 . . . The Apocalypse . . . Description of
 Illustrations . . . Probably of German Origin . . . The Canticles
 . . . Description of Fac-simile . . . Its Anachronisms . . . Its
 object . . . Quality of Engraving . . . The Story of the Blessed
 Virgin . . . Its Object . . . Description of Fac-simile . . . Its
 Absurdities . . . Exercise on the Lord’s Prayer . . . Description of
 Fac-simile . . . Singular Perversion of the Prayer . . . The Book of
 Kings . . . Description and Fac-simile . . . The Grotesque Alphabet
 . . . A Mysterious Book . . . The Apostles’ Creed . . . The Eight
 Rogueries.

       *       *       *       *       *

 I presume that nothing is in this life more useful to a man than to
 acknowledge his Creator, his condition, his own being. Scholars may
 learn this from the Scriptures, and the laymen shall be taught by the
 books of the laymen, that is by the pictures. Wherefore I have thought
 fit, with the help of God, to compile this book for laymen to the
 glory of God, and as an instruction for the unlearned, in order that
 it may be a lesson both to clerks and to laymen.

 _Preface to the Speculum Salutis._

       *       *       *       *       *

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The Invention of Printing.: A Collection of Facts and Opinions, Descriptive of Early Prints and Playing Cards, the Block-Books of the Fifteenth Century, the Legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the Work of John Gutenberg and His Associates

The Invention of Printing.: A Collection of Facts and Opinions, Descriptive of Early Prints and Playing Cards, the Block-Books of the Fifteenth Century, the Legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the Work of John Gutenberg and His Associates

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