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The first book on record printed on an American printing-press needing the services of a bookbinder was The Whole Book of Psalms, published at Cambridge in 1640. [239] John Ratcliff of the seventeenth century is the first identifiable bookbinder in colonial America, credited for binding Eliot's Indian Bible in 1663. [240]
Printer's mark of William Caxton, 1478. A variant of the merchant's mark. William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491) was an English merchant, diplomat and writer.He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476, and as a printer to be the first English retailer of printed books.
The first printing press in Southeast Asia was set up in the Philippines by the Spanish in 1593. The Rev. Jose Glover intended to bring the first printing press to England's American colonies in 1638, but died on the voyage, so his widow, Elizabeth Harris Glover, established the printing house, which was run by Stephen Day and became The ...
The first Persian book to be printed by lithography was a copy of the Quran, using a printing press imported from Russia to the city of Tabriz. [52] Despite the use of movable typography diminishing between 1852 and 1872, the process of printing from stone lithography flourished in Islamic book production. [52]
But the reader will understand better the difficulty of such a book quite up to the mark when he is told that, owing to the low temperature in the hut, the only way to keep the printing ink in a fit state to use was to have a candle burning under the inking plate; and so, if some pages are printed more lightly than others it is due to the ...
An Essay on the Liberty of the Press. Printed at the Aurora office. Heartman, Charles Frederick (1942). McMurtrie imprints, a bibliography of separately printed writings by Douglas C. McMurtrie on printing and its history in the United States and elsewhere, ... Hattiesburg, Miss., Priv. print. for the Book Farm. Hildeburn, Charles Swift Riché ...
Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...
It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of printed books in the West. The book is valued and revered for its high aesthetic and artistic qualities [1] and its historical significance. The Gutenberg Bible is an edition of the Latin Vulgate printed in the 1450s by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz (Holy Roman Empire), in present ...