The Origin of Printing, in Two Essays: I. The Substance of Dr. Middleton's Dissertation on the Origin of Printing in England; II. Mr. Meerman's ... and Its Progress to Mentz (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Origin of Printing, in Two Essays: I. The Substance of Dr. Middleton's Dissertation on the Origin of Printing in England; II. Mr. Meerman's Account of the Invention of the Art at Harleim, and Its Progress to Mentz

But thirdly the mofi direcftand internalgproofwfi its forgery, is its afcribing the (75n Rf PI 1698 Harleim; f' where Jphn guttembergdhejnventon, is {aid to haye been aperfonally at.wg5k whenfiorfclli; was brought away, and the art iteelf,t9'have,been firft carried to Mentz by a brother of 9m: Qf Gutterin bergs workmen [g] for it is gcertaingbeyond all doubt, that Printing was firll invented and propagated from Mentz. Caxton' s tefiimonygfeems alone to be dccifive; who, in the Continuation of the Poly chronicon, fol. '433 [h], fays,' About? This Tiifne (viz; anno 1455) the crafte fii'flf found in Megou'ncé'i'ih Alinayne, abroad in the very country, and at the firfi projeét and thought of it rudeft effays of it were attempted tinned for thirty years, viz. From 144r to 1471 and, as he was particularly curious and yinquifitivc after this new art, of which he was endeavouring to get 13 perfeft information, he could not be ignorant 'of ~the place where it was firfi confut'es what Palmer conjectures, to 'confirm' the credit'of the record, That the compilerimight take the common report, that paired current at the time 111 Holland, 111 favour of Hatleim or probably te.

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