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The invention of printing : a collection of facts and opinions descriptive of early prints and playing cards, the block-books of the fifteenth century, the legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates (1878)

De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : F. Hart · leaf 142

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in the sieve, leaving upon the woven splints a thinand flabby web of paper pulp. The web is then couched on 1 The artist was not restricted by ness of its impropriety, proceeds to the scant space that allowed him to draw the head and body on the fol- show only the leg of the pulp-beater lowing… … V R A R I36 THE INTRODUCTION OF PAPER IN EUROPE. a surface of cloth or felt, or of some substitute of similar nature,on which, in turn, another layer of felt and pulp is placed.When the pile is of sufficient height it is pressed, until allthe water that can be expelled by pressure is removed.…

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