. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . , therefore, considerNovember 15,1454, as the earliestdate connected Avith this time onwards the artwas practised in Germany witlmuta break, and tlie tirst efforts were almost the finest. The Maza-rine Bible of 1455-6, the Psalters of 1457 and 1459, with theirwonderful coloured capitals, rival, if they do not surjmss, anylater productions. From Mentz the art spread before 1460 toBamberg, where
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . , therefore, considerNovember 15,1454, as the earliestdate connected Avith this time onwards the artwas practised in Germany witlmuta break, and tlie tirst efforts were almost the finest. The Maza-rine Bible of 1455-6, the Psalters of 1457 and 1459, with theirwonderful coloured capitals, rival, if they do not surjmss, anylater productions. From Mentz the art spread before 1460 toBamberg, where Pfister printed popular books in the vernacular,and to where Jlontelin jirinted ISibles and tlieologicalbooks. The capture and sacking of Mentz in 1462 by Adolf vonNassau, is supposed to have scattered the printers of that town,and not long after that date we find Ulric Zel printing at large number of jirinters seem t<-) have worked there, amongthem Ariiuld iher Hilernen. who introduced title-pages and thepractice of uuinbering the leaves. Henry Ketfer, who had beena workman of C4uteubergs, introduced printing into Nuremberg. liltaen^iftinirfltril OJLOUKEjj from ps.\lteii 01
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