Typographia, Or, The Printers' Instructor: Including an Account of the Origin of Printing, with Biographical Notices of the Printers of England from Caxton to the Close of the Sixteenth Century, a Series of Ancient and Modern Alphabets and Domesday Characters, Together with an Elucidation of Every Subject Connected with the Art, Volume 1

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Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1824

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Page 242 - And by cause our trespass is but little, therefore our Lord hath sent us here, out of all pain, in full great joy and mirth, after his pleasing, here to serve him on this tree, in the best manner we can. The Sunday is a day of rest from all worldly occupation ; ond therefore that day all we be made as white as any snow, for to praise our Lord in the best wise we may.
Page 28 - God) the method of cutting (incidendi) the characters in a matrix, that the letters might easily be singly cast, instead of 'being cut. He privately cut matrices for the whole alphabet: and when he showed his master the letters cast from these matrices, Faust was so pleased with the contrivance, that he promised Peter to give him his only daughter Christina in marriage, a promise which he soon after performed.
Page 242 - Brandon commanded the bird to tell him the cause why they sat so thick on the tree and sang so...
Page 90 - At last, with much ado, they got off one of the under workmen, whose name was Frederick Corsells, or rather Corsellis ; who late one night stole from his fellows in disguise, into a vessel prepared before for that purpose ; and so the wind, favouring the design, brought him safe to London.
Page 126 - These French versions enabled Caxton, our first printer, to enrich the state of letters in this country with many valuable publications. He found it no difficult task, either by himself, or the help of his friends, to turn a considerable number of these pieces into English, which he printed. Ancient learning had as yet made too little progress among us, to encourage this enterprising and industrious artist to publish the Roman authors in their original...
Page 105 - ... any artificer, or merchant stranger, of what nation or country he be, or shall be of, for bringing into this realm, or selling by retail, or otherwise, any books written or printed, or for inhabiting within this said realm for the same intent...
Page 183 - ... chapel, supposing and weening that his fellow, the simple priest, should never be promoted, but be always an annual, or, at the most, a parish priest. So after a long time that this worshipful man, this dean, came running into a good parish with...
Page 198 - Certaynly it is harde to playse every man by cause of dyversite & chaunge of langage. For in these dayes every man that is in ony reputacyon in his countre, wyll utter his commynycacyon and maters in suche maners & termes that fewe men shall understonde theym.
Page 108 - In the Eleemosynary or Almonry at Westminster Abbey, now corruptly called the Ambry, for that the alms of the abbey were there distributed to the poor, John Islip, Abbot of Westminster, erected the first press of book-printing that ever was in England, and Caxton was the first that practised it in the said abbey.

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