Alcuin, of Scoto-Irish Church, his letter to Charlemagne........... 15 Aldus, mark of, Anchor and Dolphin Aleria, Bishop of, furnished MSS. from Vatican, &c. Anne, Queen, newspapers hardly improved during her reign Arrange and fasten pages of type in an even frame Arras and Cambrai, at, 2000 persons perished Arabic, ancient and Chinese characters. Assignats done from cast plates, in 1789 Assyria and Nineveh, engravings on rocks......... Boetius de Consolatione, printed by Caxton 55 50 53 14 9 108 2 12 73 47 76 45 47 1 Babylon, writings on bricks Badius, mark of the printing press 50 ... Bamberg, Cologne, Strasburg, and Augsburg-printing carried on 40 56 Berardus, Ch. of Pesauro, and George Alexandrinus, correctors PAGE Bible, the Fathers, and works of St. Gregory, printed by Ch. Guil- 38 (s. d.) about 1460-2, ascribed to Gutenberg or Pfister...... 32 ......... Bible Society issued 26,000,000 Bibles and Testaments Blind, printing for, origin of........................................... in library of Earl Spencer Block books, containing figures, &c. 23 57 95 22 23 56 Books, number of, printed between 1461 and 1601 ............... "Boke of St. Albans," by Juliana Berners, printed in 1536, a copy cleared up, a mistake of Middleton and Singer...... Catholicon Johannis de Balbis, printed in 1460 Campbell, Lord, and others employed as reporters Cards for playing improved........... Catena in Exodum, by Lippeman.......... Caxton commenced printing 1474 at Westminster printed on the game of chess ............................. 30 32 40 died about 1491, his epitaph from old edition of Fructus Chartreuse of Buxheim, block book found there in MS., 1417 ..... 23 Censorship of press held first by University appointment of, by Archbishop of Mentz. Certain News of the Present Week, appeared 1622 PAGE 99 100 71 Charles and his Parliament, disputes between, commenced 1640.. 71 Commons, House of, fail to restrain publication of their debates.. 74 Condorcet on the conduct of Mons. in legislature of France 17 15 101 despotism of Henry VIII. 103 Convents, members and collected manuscripts................ Copyright, disputes about, temp. Charles II. act 5 and 6 Vict., giving right during author's life... 104 Copyright, acts concerning Coster, Laurence, alleged inventor of printing 106 102 26 his pretensions supported by Meerman and Konig ......... 26 letters on a tree invented leaden types ........ the story of, altogether untrue... Cotton-plant, paper made from........ Dominicalia, Stampato in papyro, 1340 ...... Donkin and Bacon's ingenious press for Cambridge... Edinburgh, press set up by Chapman Egyptians and Jews, belief of Emperors, Roman, collectors of books.......... English Mercurie of Elizabeth-account of very doubtful when printed, and observations on Errata, 7000 found in Bible Errors not always unintentional, instances of... Eumenes of Pergamus, his library Ezekiel commanded to use tile........ Faques, the king's printer monogram of white triangle based on .............. 51 Faust and Schaeffer, earliest mark known, two shields tied Faust brought copies of Bible to Paris as MSS., and obliged to discover the secret.............. in 1465 published "Offices of Cicero" supposed to have died at Paris 's workmen commenced in Paris in 1469....... Field and Barker, printers to Queen Elizabeth...... Florence, Lyons, Rome, and Venice, mark of, the lily of the Franklin, disputed possession of letters to Governor of Massachu- 60 50 67 dismissed from being deputy postmaster in America 93 Gering Ulric and two associates commenced in Paris in 1170...... 37 PAGE Ged's process of casting words and terminations....................... 47 Greek printing pursued generally............. Greek, passages found in, 1465........ 76 66 43 43 107 15 ............... 44 45 44 Greek also in the Aulus Gellius and Apuleius, 1469.................. 44 Gutenberg, or Gensfleich, settled at Strasburg 71 associated, 1450, with John Faust and Schoffer....... 27 inventeur de la typographie, opinion of Oberlin in... 25 Haerlem claims invention of printing, by Coster holds annual festivals for Hebrew characters formed in 1476 Psalms, with commentary of Mordecai............ Hebrew former and later prophets at Soncini....... Hieroglyphic pillars of Egypt 45 .......... NAAAAAANK 26 27. 45 45 45 2 |