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IN your article on the Caxton Exhibition last week, there is the remark that the beauty of execution in the specimens preserved to us of the work of the earliest known printers suggests a doubt whether the date of the actual invention must not be pushed back farther than the accepted one. But does that follow? Is not the beauty of the first printing simply the beauty of the wood engraving of the time? an art which had attained an exquisite perfection before its application to movable type.
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CECIL, H. Printing and Calico Printing. Nature 16, 207 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016207b0
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