Incunabula - Dawn of Western Printing

Frontispiece of book incorporating the portraits of six early printers (copperplate print)

Source: Marchand, P. :Histoire de l'origine et des premieres progres d'imprimerie (La Haye, 1740) <VF5-Y2711>
Frontispiece of Marchand's Histoire de l'origine ...d'imprimerie (1740). This copperplate by J.V. Schley includes portraits of Gutenberg, Fust, Coster, Caxton, Aldus and Etienne.

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