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The Pentateuch of printing

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William Blades explains in his preface why he calls his book The Pentateuch of Printing: the Genesis of the World finds a parallel in the Genesis of Printing, the spread of typography in Exodus, the rules for making a book in Leviticus, and, less directly, the printers' roll of honour in Numbers. The volume carries a memoir of the author with a list of his works by Talbot B. Reed. An illustration shows St. Christopher, captioned as the earliest dated woodcut, from 1423.

A passage about the author says he signed some title pages William Blades, Printer, and studied early printing as a printer first, an antiquary next and a man of letters last. In another passage Caxton, tired of so much writing, goes to Colard Mansion at Bruges, who had set up a press in a room over the church porch of St. Donatus, and about 1474 or 1475 the book is completed and a copy given to the Duchess. A list of books for the student names works such as Cotton's Typographical Gazetteer and Panzer's Annales.

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William Blades (1824-1890) was an English printer and bibliographer, born at Clapham, London. He also worked as a biographer, restorer and book printer, and was a book collector. His titles include "The Enemies of Books".

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Pages
115
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