 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 pages
...of wood and metal. He was associated with Dr. Faustus, mentioned below. Having printed off numbers of copies of the Bible, to imitate those which were commonly sold in manuscript, Hayden says Dr, Faustus undertook the sale of them at Paris where printing was then... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 698 pages
...was soon dissolved ; and the former being unable to repay part of the capital advanced by the latter, the whole of the printing apparatus fell into the...imitate those which were commonly sold as MSS., and undertook the sale of them at Paris. It was his interest to conceal this discovery, and to pass off... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 946 pages
...though, in some respects, it has a foundation in truth. When Fust had discovered this new art, and printed off a considerable number of copies of the Bible to imitate those which were commonly •old as MSS., he undertook the sale of them at Paris. It was his interest to conceal this discovery,... | |
 | Albert Plympton Southwick - 1886 - 300 pages
...though in some respects it has a foundation in truth. When Fust had discovered this new art, and printed a considerable number of copies of the Bible to imitate those which were commonly sold as MSS., he undertook the sale of them at Paris. It was his interest to conceal this discovery, and to pass... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1893 - 616 pages
...the Bibles of the tint printer, Fust, appeared to the world. When he had discovered this new art, and printed off a considerable number of copies of the...Bible, to imitate those which were commonly sold as kiss., he undertook the said of them at Paris. It was his interest to conceal this discovery, and to... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pages
...off a considerable number of copies of the Bible, to imitate those which were commonly sold in MSS., he undertook the sale of them at Paris. It was his...discovery, and to pass off his printed copies for MSS. But as he was enabled to sell his Bibles at sixty crowns, while the other scribes demanded five hundred,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 454 pages
...Bibles of the first printer, Fust, appeared to the world. When he had discovered this new art, and printed off a considerable number of copies of the Bible, to imitate those which were commonly sold in MSS., he undertook the sale of them at Paris. It was his interest to conceal this discovery, and... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 pages
...Bibles of the first printer, Fust, appeared to the world. When he had discovered this new art, and printed off a considerable number of copies of the Bible, to imitate those which were commonly sold in MSS., he undertook the sale of them at Paris. It was his interest to conceal this discovery, and... | |
 | 1823 - 434 pages
...John of Guttenburgh : their types were cut in wood, and fixed, not moveable, as at present. Having printed off a considerable number of copies of the Bible, to imitate those which were commonly sold in manuscript, Fust undertook the sale of them at Paris, where the art of printing was then unknown.... | |
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When he had discovered this new art, and printed off a considerable number of copies of the Bible, to imitate those which were commonly sold in MSS., he undertook the sale of them at Paris. It was his interest to conceal this discovery, and to pass off... 
