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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 56.

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BOOKS AND BOOK MAKING.

THE first Bible printed with a date was finished by Faust in 1462.
Type-setting machines were suggested for book work as early as 1842.
Books were printed in Paris from stereotyped plates by Didot in 1798.
Ancient books were sometimes written on slabs of wood, ivory, or metals.
The first book printed in America is said to have been an almanac, at Boston, in 1639.
The first printed engravings for use in books were done on wood, in 1519, in Germany.
The first book to have its leaves numbered was "Æsop’s Fables," printed by Caxton, in 1484.
Chinese printing was done certainly as early as A.D. 593, books of that date being now in existence.
Three-fourths of the inventions used in bookbinding are due to the ingenuity of American binders.
The first printed books had their leaves printed on one side only, the blank sides being pasted together.—Monthly World.