William Skeen

CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

Early Typography. CHAPTER I.

Early Typography. CHAPTER II.

Early Typography. CHAPTER III.

Early Typography. CHAPTER IV.

Early Typography. CHAPTER V.

APPENDIX.

I. Account of the Origin of Printing, by J. F. Faust of Aschaffenberg.

II. Account of the Origin of Printing, by Hadrian Junius.

III. The Haarlem-Coster-Legend.

IV. Cut Wooden , versus Cast Metal Types .

ERRATA.

PRINTED AT COLOMBO,
BY WILLIAM SKEEN, GOVERNMENT PRINTER,
CEYLON.

EARLY TYPOGRAPHY.

BY

WILLIAM SKEEN.

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COLOMBO: CEYLON.
1872.

The accumulation of materials in the writer’s hands in the course of the last twelve months, has induced him to depart from his original intention of limiting his labours to a single book. A sketch of the history of the spread of the Art, after the sack of Mentz in 1462, with notices of the most material improvements and recent inventions connected with it, will, consequently, form the subjects of a separate volume. It only remains for him now thankfully to acknowledge his obligations to Mrs. J. Ferguson, and Messrs. Iliff, Ronald, and Paatz, of Colombo, for their most kindly rendered assistance, by which he has been enabled to complete this portion of his work much earlier than he otherwise could have done.

January 20, 1872.

W. S.