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Printing -- History -- Origin and antecedents books

5 free books about printing -- history -- origin and antecedents, free to read online. Chapter 1 of any book is free, no account needed.

Top authorsTheodore Low De Vinne E. Gordon Duff Frederick W. Hamilton William Skeen John Rothwell Slater

Early Printed Books

E. Gordon Duff

Cover of The Invention of Printing. A Collection of Facts and Opinions, Descriptive of Early Prints and Playing Cards, the Block-Books of the Fifteenth Century, the Legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the Work of John Gutenberg and His Associates

The Invention of Printing. A Collection of Facts and Opinions, Descriptive of Early Prints and Playing Cards, the Block-Books of the Fifteenth Century, the Legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the Work of John Gutenberg and His Associates

Theodore Low De Vinne

Early Typography

William Skeen

Printing and the Renaissance A paper read before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester, New York

John Rothwell Slater

The Invention of Typography A Brief Sketch of the Invention of Printing and How it Came About

Frederick W. Hamilton