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
De Vinne, Theodore Low
Incunabula -- Bibliography; Printing -- History -- Origin and antecedents
Mark of Edmund Pepyr, 1483 . . . 125
Mark of an unknown person . . . 125
Japanese Method of Making Paper . . . 135
Paper-Mill of the sixteenth century . . . 140
Scriptorium of the middle ages . . . 149
Penmanship of the ninth century . . . 150
Manuscript of the fifteenth century . . . 152
Medieval Bookbinding . . . 153
Medieval Illuminator . . . 154
Sumptuously Bound Book . . . 156
Medieval Book with covers of oak . . . 157
Book Cover in Ivory, Byzantine style . . . 158
Seal of the University of Paris . . . 161
English Horn-Book . . . 174
English Clog . . . 175
Holbein’s Dance of Death . . . 183
Dance of Death, as shown in the Nuremberg Chronicle . . . 185
Last page of the Bible of the Poor . . . 197
First page of the Bible of the Poor, as made by Walther and Hurning
. . . 209
First page of the Apocalypse . . . 213
First page of the Canticles . . . 217
Story of the Blessed Virgin . . . 221
Exercise on the Lord’s Prayer . . . 223
Illustration from the Book of Kings . . . 225
Letter K of Grotesque Alphabet . . . 227
Page from the Apostles’ Creed . . . 228
Page from the Eight Rogueries . . . 229
Page from the Antichrist . . . 232
Page from the Ars Memorandi . . . 234
Page from the Ars Moriendi . . . 237
Chiromancy of Doctor Hartlieb . . . 240
Calendar of John of Gamundia . . . 242
Page from the Wonders of Rome . . . 243
Pomerium Spirituale . . . 244
Temptations of the Devil . . . 245
Life of St. Meinrat . . . 246
Heidelberg Dance of Death . . . 247
German Donatus, from a block in the National Library at Paris . . . 258
Fragment of an early Donatus . . . 259
Early Dutch Horarium . . . 260
Imprint of Conrad Dinckmut . . . 262
First page of Speculum Salutis . . . 266
Last page of Speculum Salutis . . . 268
Types of Speculum Salutis . . . 277
Types in third edition of Speculum . . . 285
Types of Fables of Lorenzo Valla . . . 286
Types of Peculiarities of Criminal Law . . . 287
Types of Epitaphs of Pope Pius II . . . 288
The Enschedé Abecedarium . . . 290
Experimental Letters drawn on wood . . . 294
Types from Experimental Letters . . . 295
Frisket, Tympan and Bed of an early European Printing Press . . . 307
Paper-marks: seven illustrations . . . 309, 310
Types of Jacob Bellaert . . . 319
Types of John Brito . . . 321
Map of the Netherlands . . . 323
Scriverius’ Portrait of Coster . . . 333
Statue of Coster in Doctors’ Garden . . . 351
Medals in honor of Coster . . . 353, 354
Statue of Coster on the monument . . . 359
Autograph of Laurens Janszoon . . . 361
House of Coster . . . 370
Portrait of Laurens Janszoon Coster . . . 371
Spurious Portrait by Van den Berg . . . 372
Portrait attributed to Van Oudewater . . . 372
The Laurens Janszoon of Meerman . . . 373
Medieval Press . . . 395
Type-mould of Claude Garamond . . . 399
Types of the Donatus attributed to Gutenberg at Strasburg . . . 401
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