The book Early Typography was written by author Skeen, William, 1822?-1872 Here you can read free online of Early Typography book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Early Typography a good or bad book?
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A new invention never fails to engage curio- sity. And when a commodity never before seen excited purchasers, to the advantage of the inventor, the admiration of the art increased, dependents were enlarged, and workmen multiplied ; the first calamitous incident ! Among these was one John. Whe- ther, as we suspect, he had ominously the name of Faustus — unfaithful and unlucky to his master, — or whether he was really a person EAELY TYPOGEAPHY. 213 of that name, I shall not much inquire ; being v...mwilling to molest the silent shades, who suffer from a consciousness of their past actions in this life. This man, bound by oath to keep the secret of printing, when he thought he ^ad learned the art of joining the letters, the method of casting the types, and other things of that nature, taking the most convenient time that was possible, on Christmas eve, when every one was custom- arily employed in lustral sacrifices, seizes the collection of types, and all the implements his master had got together, and, with one accomplice, marches off to Amsterdam, thence to Cologne, and at last settled at Mentz, as at an asylum of security, where he might go to work with the tools he had stolen.
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