E. Gordon Duff

Early Printed Books (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Excerpt: 'When we speak of the invention of printing, we mean the invention of the art of multiplying books by means of single types capable of being used again and again in different combinations for the printing of different books. Taking the word printing in its widest sense, it means merely the impression of any image; and the art of impressing or stamping words or pictures seems to have been known from the very earliest times. The handles of Greek amphoræ, the bases of Roman lamps and vases, were often impressed with the maker's name, or other legend, by means of a stamp. This was the basis of the art, and Cicero (De Nat. Deorum, ii. 37) had suggested the combination of single letters into sentences. Quintilian refers to stencil plates as a guide to writing; and stamps with letters cut in relief were in common use amongst the Romans. The need for the invention, however, was not great, and it was never made. The first practical printing, both from blocks and mov[2]able type, was done in China. As early as a.d. 593 the more important texts were printed from engraved wooden plates by the order of the Emperor Wên-ti, and in the eleventh century printing from movable type was introduced by a certain smith named Picheng. The multiplicity of Chinese characters rendered the discovery of movable type of little economical value, and the older system of block printing has found favour even up to the present time. In the same way, Corea and Japan, though both had experimented with movable type, returned to their former custom of block printing.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 171
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783968655833
• Artikelnr.: 60952299

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Steps towards the invention
2. The invention of printing
3. Spread of printing in Germany
4. Italy
5. France
6. The Low Countries
7. Spain and Portugal. Denmark and Sweden
8. Westminster: Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde, Julian Notary
9. Oxford and St. Albans
10. London: John Lettou, William de Machlinia, Richard Pynson
11. The spread of the art in Great Britain
12. The study of bookbinding
13. The collecting and describing of early printed books
Index of printers and places.