Excerpt from Rules for Compositors and Readers Employed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford Though a variety of opinions exist as to the individual by whom the art of printing was first discovered; yet all authorities concur in admitting peter schoeffer to be the person who invented cast metal types, having learned the art of cutting the letters from the Guttembergs: he is also supposed to have been the first who engraved on copper plates. The following testimony is preserved in the family, by Jo. Fred. Faustus of Aschef ...
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Excerpt from Rules for Compositors and Readers Employed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford Though a variety of opinions exist as to the individual by whom the art of printing was first discovered; yet all authorities concur in admitting peter schoeffer to be the person who invented cast metal types, having learned the art of cutting the letters from the Guttembergs: he is also supposed to have been the first who engraved on copper plates. The following testimony is preserved in the family, by Jo. Fred. Faustus of Aschef fenburg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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