Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Antiquæ Libri - The Archaeology of thebook - ATB-1301 --In this volume Van Der Linde examines the Coster-question concerning the argument that printing was invented in the Netherlands at Haarlem by Lourens Janszoon Coster rather than Johannes Gutenberg in the German city of Mainz. --Antiquæ Libri is dedicated to providing high quality reprints of important works documenting the invention and development of printing in the western world. We have focused on documents that are available in the public domain as electronic books. Unfortunately many of these publically available copies are in poor condition due to the lack of care in reproduction. We believe that a physical copy of a book is far superior to any e-book. It is also our belief that the best reprints reproduce the layout, type and illustrations of the original. Thus we have worked to provide the cleanest copies possible by individually examining each page for faults and have corrected as many as possible.