The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-02-22
Origin and Progress Of Printing.

Inc city OF MentZ, IN bernany, IS Gu
titled to the honor Of being the birth
place of Printing. Strasburg and one
or two other cities have laid earnest
claims to this high honor, but it is gen
orally conceded, by historians, that it be-
longs to Montz
Gutenberg invented, and first used,
separate letters or movable types, in
: l442. AS early as l423 he had printed
with lines cut on wood, but this was on
: ly small mechanical advance on what
had been dono for many years
Nylographic printing, or the taking
Of impressions from wooden tables. on
which letters or figures were engraved.
had previously been practiccd in Ger
many, This was an eastern invention
1t came from China and japan, where
it is still in use Among the japanese.
from time immcinorial, the art of taking
impressions in wax has been exercised
aud these curious and isolated people
claim the merit ofhaving originated Xyl
ographic printing
1 Topographic printing or the taking Of
impressions from movable wooden or
metal types, began, properly, in 1li9.
The Oldest work geographically exccu-
ted, was Latin Bible, which was pub
lished in 1855.
a man named John Faust or Faustus.
became associated with Guttcmburgh
and did much to improve the art the
latter had invented The Bibles then
cx;ant were i'll manuscript and the writ
ing of them gave profitable employment
to many Monks. In l462 Faust went
to Paris to sell the Bibles he had print
cd when the moaks, fearing his business
would so interfere with theirs as to reud
er their copying labors unnecessary, op'
posed him bitterly and appealed to the
prejudices and surerstitions Of the peo
pie, by declaring that he was leagucd
with the Father of lies Faust became
alarmed, on account Of the violence Of
their persecution, and fed to Paris: hence
arose the tradition that Satan mvster
ously conducted the printer to his invis-
bic kingdom.
FROM Germany printing was first car
ried into Italy it was next practicod in
France 1t was introduced in England,
By William Caxton, about the year
IA.
Guttcmburg, at first. took impres
sions from his types by fastening them
upon a table,-coloring them with writ.
ing ink-sproadins the paper over them
and pressing it with rubber of horn.
Faust invented printing.ink and Gut
tcnbcrg constructed a rude printing
press. Iron presses were earliest en-
ployed BY Lord Stanhope of England
1t was not until l7l6 that the titles
to chapters had been used as early as
ll10, but then there were no capital let
tcrs nor any marks of punctuation.
Printing was regarded with marked
suspicion by the powers of even cultivat
ed England. For long series of years,
printers were obliged TO take Out license
As it was the foe of the selfish monks
who prosecuted poor Faust. so it has cv-
everywhere been, and so it must ever be.
the direct foe Of tyranny and bigotry,-
of illibcrality and prejudice and, there
fore, is it true that in every country OF
the world. but in America, it has been.
and is now, subject to more or less en-
barrassng restriction.
The men who came to the shores o.
New England in the MayAower, had
more enlarged ideas Of the power and
, usefulness of printing, than the mass OF
thcit fellow Englishmen,-among whom
, they lowered like church stcepes among
business odilices on our city strcets,--
! and yet, after many years their dcs
cendants and the descendants Of those
who joined them in the New World, were
J. extremely cautious how they encouraged
: printing 1t was watched and guarded
rs a medium of grea. good or Of great
! harm, according to the liberty or license
granted it
= The first Printing Press set up in A
mcrica. was worked at Cambridge
Mass in 1920.
Rev Jesse Glover procured this press
By contributions of friends of learning
and religion" in Amsterdam and in En-
C gland but died on his passage to th,
c New World.
Stephen Day was tho first printer, II
; honor of his pioneer position, Govern
7 ment gave him a grant Of three hundred
5 acres of land
The third book published by him. wa
the Psalms in Metre" In 1861, the New
u Testament. and Baxter's Cail translated
= into the Indian language By Elliot, tho
great Missionary, were printed at cos
: of $4,000. The title might be recon
. mended, on account of its obscurity anc
' HI oh -gpnnAtnfr a1o 10 cf tl.
,, writers of books nowadays. 1t wa'
= IINSkW- j'uteahementum INfLord
animm Jesns Christ NuppoqhtensSna
e eHeHHlHn"
u The whole Bible VAS printed in this
language in 1868. The nation speaking
" it is now extinct.
- Pennsylvania was the second State tt
! encourage printing William Bradlor,
came to Pennsylvania with Wm. Penn
i in 1852 and IN 1856, established ;
4 printing-press in Philadelphia its frs
:, issue was an Almanac for 1857 it wal
y but a sheet The first book printed by
! Mr. Bradford was a collection Of essay
!, by Francis Bacon. 1t appeared in l6SS
. and was called The Temple of Wis
DOM
In 1852, Mr. Bradford was induced t
:, establish printing-pre in New York
~ lie received f40 per annum, and "th'
" privilege Of printing on his own account,
/" Previous to this time, there had been nc
= printing done in the Province of New
/, York His FIRST issue in New York was
proclamation, bearing the date of 692
IS The first paper-mill erected in Amcri