The Development of Printing as an Art, Vol. 2: A Handbook of the Exhibiton in Honor of the Bi-Centenary of Franklin's Birth Held at the Boston Public ... of the Society of Printers (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Development of Printing as an Art, Vol. 2: A Handbook of the Exhibiton in Honor of the Bi-Centenary of Franklin's Birth Held at the Boston Public Library Under the Auspices of the Society of Printers

The examples of German printing, which are the earliest known, were immediately surpassed in excel lence by the work executed in Italy, then the home 'of scholarship, whither the German printers naturally carried it. It is Italy, therefore, which exerted the first great influence in the Development of Printing as an Art, and the exhibition begins with books produced in this country.

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