Catalog

from its invention to its wide-spread development in the middle of the 16th century preceded by a short account of the origin of the alphabet and the successive methods of recording events and multiplying ms books before the invention of printing

The block-books or xylographic delineations of scripture history; issued in Holland Flanders and Germany during the fifteenth century exemplified and considered in connexion with the origin of printing To which is added an attempt to elucidate the character of the paper-marks of the period

how Gutenberg changed the world

being notes of some of the printed books manuscripts historical documents medals engravings pottery etc collected (1858-1900)

A collection of facts and opinions descriptive of early prints and playing cards the block-books of the fifteenth century the legend of Lourens Janzoon Coster of Haarlem and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates Illustrated with fac-similes of early types and woodcuts