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Alcuin, of Scoto-Irish Church, his letter to Charlemagne........... 15
Alcyonius, Peter and other Greeks, found refuge with Aldus...... 54
Aldus deservedly ennobled

Aldus, mark of, Anchor and Dolphin

Aleria, Bishop of, furnished MSS. from Vatican, &c.

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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

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Babylon, writings on bricks

Badius, mark of the printing press

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Bamberg, Cologne, Strasburg, and Augsburg-printing carried on
Behistan, inscriptions on rocks of.............

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Berardus, Ch. of Pesauro, and George Alexandrinus, correctors

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Bible, the Fathers, and works of St. Gregory, printed by Ch. Guil-
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(s. d.) about 1460-2, ascribed to Gutenberg or Pfister...... 32
Bible presented by Alcuin to Charlemagne, description of.......... 15
Biblia Pauperum executed 1420-1430

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Bible Society issued 26,000,000 Bibles and Testaments

Blind, printing for, origin of...........................................

in library of Earl Spencer

Block books, containing figures, &c.

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Books, number of, printed between 1461 and 1601 ...............

"Boke of St. Albans," by Juliana Berners, printed in 1536, a copy

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cleared up, a mistake of Middleton and Singer......
begun in 1521 by John Sibert

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

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died about 1491, his epitaph from old edition of Fructus

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Chartreuse of Buxheim, block book found there in MS., 1417 ..... 23

Censorship of press held first by University

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appointment of, by Archbishop of Mentz.

Certain News of the Present Week, appeared 1622

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Charles and his Parliament, disputes between, commenced 1640.. 71

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Commons, House of, fail to restrain publication of their debates.. 74

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Condorcet on the conduct of Mons. in legislature of France

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despotism of Henry VIII.

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Convents, members and collected manuscripts................

Copyright, disputes about, temp. Charles II.

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act 5 and 6 Vict., giving right during author's life... 104
act 1811 extended right of authors to twenty-eight years 105
further extended

Copyright, acts concerning

Coster, Laurence, alleged inventor of printing

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his pretensions supported by Meerman and Konig ......... 26
supported by Junius, who ascribes the invention to carving

letters on a tree

invented leaden types ........

the story of, altogether untrue...

Cotton-plant, paper made from........

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Dominicalia, Stampato in papyro, 1340 ......

Donkin and Bacon's ingenious press for Cambridge...
Durandi Rationale, printed 1459

Edinburgh, press set up by Chapman
Egypt, hieroglyphic sarcophagi

Egyptians and Jews, belief of

Emperors, Roman, collectors of books..........

English Mercurie of Elizabeth-account of

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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........

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Faques, the king's printer monogram of white triangle based on
apex of black one..........

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Faust and Schaeffer, earliest mark known, two shields tied
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Faust brought copies of Bible to Paris as MSS., and obliged

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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
Junta.......

Franklin, disputed possession of letters to Governor of Massachu-

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dismissed from being deputy postmaster in America 93
French Satirist, notice of increase of books at Paris...........
French intelligence, and variety of newspapers during civil war...
French Revolution, newspaper press greatly improved during...... 75

Gering Ulric and two associates commenced in Paris in 1170...... 37

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Ged's process of casting words and terminations....................... 47
George III., his undaunted and courageous bearing.......
Glasgow council employed news writer.....
Góes, Hewe, began printing at York in 1509........
removed to Beverley in 1516......
Goethe, opinion of the difference between men...
Gordian the younger, bequest of books to him
Greek Psalter, 1481, by Crestoni of Milan....

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Greek printing pursued generally.............

Greek, passages found in, 1465........

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Greek also in the Aulus Gellius and Apuleius, 1469.................. 44
Guillard, Charlotte, an extensive printer in Paris, 1490-1540..... 38
Gustavus Adolphus and the thirty years' war.............................................................................
Gutenberg, John, ennobled by Adolphus of Mentz.........

Gutenberg, or Gensfleich, settled at Strasburg

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associated, 1450, with John Faust and Schoffer....... 27

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inventeur de la typographie, opinion of Oberlin in...

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Haerlem claims invention of printing, by Coster

holds annual festivals for

Hebrew characters formed in 1476

Psalms, with commentary of Mordecai............
Pentateuch, with Targum of Jarchi.....

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Hebrew former and later prophets at Soncini.......

Hieroglyphic pillars of Egypt

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