Typographia: an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing: With Practical Directions for Conducting Every Department in an Office: with a Description of Stereotype and Lithography. Illustrated by Engravings, Biographical Notices, and Portraits |
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Page 14
... length of time for the inscription on the pedestal of the Colossus at Delos , nearly contemporary with the Sigean , as well as Amphitrion's on one of the Tripods at Thebes , reads on from left to right only : The Sigean Inscription in ...
... length of time for the inscription on the pedestal of the Colossus at Delos , nearly contemporary with the Sigean , as well as Amphitrion's on one of the Tripods at Thebes , reads on from left to right only : The Sigean Inscription in ...
Page 31
... length gave birth to the idea that every letter and character throughout a work might be made capable of re - arrangement , and thus be brought to form all the succession of pages belonging to any work , instead of doing it by the ...
... length gave birth to the idea that every letter and character throughout a work might be made capable of re - arrangement , and thus be brought to form all the succession of pages belonging to any work , instead of doing it by the ...
Page 41
... that conduced to render it doubtful in whom , and at what place , the art had actually its origin . But an invention so extraordinary could not be entirely secreted for any great length of INTRODUCTION . 41 PRACTICE OF THE.
... that conduced to render it doubtful in whom , and at what place , the art had actually its origin . But an invention so extraordinary could not be entirely secreted for any great length of INTRODUCTION . 41 PRACTICE OF THE.
Page 42
... length of time ; and the following incident may be supposed to have much tended to its general notoriety . An artist , upon offering for sale a number of bibles , which so nicely resembled each other in every particular that they were ...
... length of time ; and the following incident may be supposed to have much tended to its general notoriety . An artist , upon offering for sale a number of bibles , which so nicely resembled each other in every particular that they were ...
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... length he formed a few lines for his own amusement , and for the use of the children of his brother - in - law ” ( or as some say , of his daughter's children ) . “ This succeeding so well , he attempted greater things ; and being a man ...
... length he formed a few lines for his own amusement , and for the use of the children of his brother - in - law ” ( or as some say , of his daughter's children ) . “ This succeeding so well , he attempted greater things ; and being a man ...
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