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LINING CUSlING MONOTONE No. 553

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ALL THE MONEY THUS OBTAINED
Was expended by Royal Authority for the
purchase of Greek Letters. The press thus
furnished was finally settled in London 158

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THE BENEDICTINE MONK SAT IN HIS COLD AND CHEERLESS CELL
AND COPIED THE SACRED WRITINGS OF THE BIBLE AND THE SAINTS

O THER monks have done good
service in the work of tran-
scription, but to the Bene-
dictine Monk we are most
indebted. Without his conscientious
labor much of the ancient literature
which we now have would have been
irretrievably lost, and to him and his
order let us pay our distant tribute of
gratitude. But this was a slow and
very laborious process of reproducing
single copies, and if the people were
to be reached and their wants satisfied
some quicker way had to be found.
The engraver came to the task, and
blocks of wood were engraved with

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pictures illustrating Biblical subjects
or stories of the Saints, perhaps ac-
companied with some sentences cut
on the same block, in relief, and then
printed on single sheets of dampened
paper by means of friction, like a
"squeeze" from an inscription. The
earliest dated print is a St. Christo-
pher, which bears the date 1423. They
were generally copied from similar
sheets that had been circulated in
manuscript, and, with the playing
cards, form the earliest printed pub-
lications. It is generally conceded
that none of them could;,%have been
earlier than about the middle of the

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THE BIBLE, PRINTED WITH METAL TYPES,
FIRST MADE ITS APPEARANCE ABOUT 1455
But it must have occupied several years in the process
of printing, and was begun, perhaps, as early as 1450.
It is called the Gutenberg or 42-line Bible. It is a
well-printed book, folio in size, comprising 641 leaves,
printed on both sides of the leaf, two columns to the
page, and excepting the first few pages, 42 lines to
the column. Considering the difficulties to be met
with in such early work it can be called a masterpiece
of printing. The style of type is the Missal type, such

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LETTER FROM THE ENGLISH KING TO BISHOP LAUD
Most reverend father in God, right trusty and right entirely beloved
counselor, we greet you. Whereas our servant, Patrick Young, keeper
of our library, hath lately with great industry and care published in
print an epistle of Clemens in the Greek and Latin languages 123456
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