Excerpt from The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster, Critically Examined We find, however, a technical term gette en molle in the Cambray ms., which seems to be applicable to either mode of printing (xylography or typography), while it appears also capable of being interpreted in a way disconnecting it altogether from our subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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