The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing By Lourens Janszoon Coster
The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing By Lourens Janszoon Coster
Antonius Van Der Linde
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in order to make it more probable that Caxton brought the art of printing to England I from Holland, Noordziek places him rather in London than in Utrecht ! But, Noordziek soon observed I his mistake, for in 1 848 he changed the ridiculous title given to Caxton into a better one : Factor of English merchants at Utrecht. Caxton, he who had resided also some years in Bruges, when Colard Mansion printed there, and who h:id been in Cologne and Utrecht, and had introduced typography into England, wr...ites himself, in 1482 (Policronicon, Liber ultimus), while describing the events of 1456 : " Also about this tyme the crafte of I ' Enpryntyng was fyrst founde in magounce in Almayne, whiclie crafte is multiplyed thurgh the world in I ! many places, > OF THE ^ >^>- OF THE «^ï\ 108 QUIRIJN DIRKSZ. Expresses himself thus : "To this we may easily answer, that we grant that the first printing-office was nothing but a deception ; because the booksellers sold the printed books as written by hand, for the sake of profit.
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