A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . office of custos or warden of St. Bavons church being hereditary in hisfamily ; and in a third account we find Lawrence Janszoon figuring as apromoter of sedition and one of the leaders of a body of rioters. Theadvocates for the claims of Harlem have brought forward everyLawrence that they could find at that period whose fathers name wasJohn ; as if the more they could produce the more conclusive would be TYPOGEAPHY. 163 the proof of one of them at least being the inventor of printing. As thebooks which are ascribed to Coster furnish p
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . office of custos or warden of St. Bavons church being hereditary in hisfamily ; and in a third account we find Lawrence Janszoon figuring as apromoter of sedition and one of the leaders of a body of rioters. Theadvocates for the claims of Harlem have brought forward everyLawrence that they could find at that period whose fathers name wasJohn ; as if the more they could produce the more conclusive would be TYPOGEAPHY. 163 the proof of one of them at least being the inventor of printing. As thebooks which are ascribed to Coster furnish positive evidence of theincorrectness of the story of Cornelius and of the comments of Meerman ;and as records, which are now matters of history, prove that neitherGutemberg nor Faust stole any types from Coster or his descendants, thenext supporter of the claims of Harlem will have to begin de novo ; andlest the palm should be awarded to the wrong Lawrence Janszoon, heought first to ascertain which of them is really the hero of the old book-binders M2 164 WOOD ENGRAVING CHAPTEE IV. WOOD ENGRAVING IN CONNEXION WITH THE PRESS. rAUST AND SCHEFFKRS PSALTER OF 1457 —PUIXTING AT BAMBERG IN 1461—BOOKS CON-TAIXING WOOD-CUTS PRINTED THERE BY ALBERT PFISTER—OPPOSITIOX OF THE WOODENGRAVERS 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-CUTSFREQUENT 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 — NUREMBERGCHRONICLE—WOOD ENGRAVING IN ITALY—POLIPHILI HYPNEBOTOMACIIIA—DECLINE OFBLOCK-PRINTING—OLD WOODCUTS IN DERSCHAUs COLLECTION.
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