 | 1823 - 872 pages
...letters, as there had been before with wooden ones ; the metal being too soft to support the force ot the impression: but this defect was soon remedied,...metal with a substance which sufficiently hardened it (i)." Fust and Sthoeffer concealed this new improvement, by administering an oath of secrecy to all... | |
 | John Johnson - 1824 - 696 pages
...many difficulties at first with theee letters, as there had been before with wooden ones ; the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression...with a substance which sufficiently hardened it.' 218 — EXPLANATION OF THE CORRECTIONS. A WRONG letter in a word is noticed by drawing a abort perpendicular... | |
 | John Johnson - 1824 - 658 pages
...many difficulties at Srst with these letters, as there had been before with uooden ones ; the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression: but this defect was soon remedied, liy mixing the metal with a substance which sufficiently hardened it." The first book printed with... | |
 | John Johnson - 1824 - 656 pages
...iioorien ones ; the mct:il being too jufi to support the force of the impresMon : but this defrct wab soon remedied, by mixing the metal with a substance which sufficiently hardened il," characters which occur beiitg cut types, as it plainly appears by an inspection of the book. Faust... | |
 | John Johnson - 1824 - 732 pages
...many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with wooden ones ; the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression : but this defect,was soon remedied, by mixing the metal with a substance which sufficiently hardened it.' EXPLANATION... | |
 | Charles Henry Timperley - 1839 - 1266 pages
...many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with wooden ones, the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression...with a substance which sufficiently hardened it." From all the arguments and opinions which have been adduced in this important controversy, the conclusion... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1844 - 252 pages
...many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with wooden ones ; the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression...with a substance which sufficiently hardened it." John Schoeffer, the son of Peter, who was also a printer, confirms this account, adding, " Fust and... | |
 | 1847 - 340 pages
...many difficulties at first with these letters, ax there had been before with wooden ones; the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression;...with a substance which sufficiently hardened it." Since, then, the first letters of Gutenberg were cut in wood, it may be very reasonably concluded that... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 350 pages
...many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with wooden ones ; the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression...with a substance which sufficiently hardened it." John Schoeffer, the son of Peter, who was also a printer, confirms this account, adding, "Fust and... | |
 | Thomas F. Adams - 1857 - 300 pages
...many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with wooden ones, the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression...with a substance which sufficiently hardened it.' 1§ EXPLANATION OP THE CORRECTIONS. A WRONG letter in a word is noticed by drawing a short perpendicular... | |
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... matrices, Faust was so pleased with the contrivance, that he promised Peter to give him his only daughter Christina in marriage, a promise which he soon after performed. But there were as many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had... 
