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vaIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING.

vRIG1N AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING.
The city of Mcntz, in Germany is entitled to
the honor Of being the birthplace Of Printing.
S~trasburg and Que or two other cities have laid
earnest claims to this high honor, but it is gem
orally conceded by historians, that it belongs to
Mentz.
Guttemburg invented, and first used separate
letters or immovable types, in HIP. As early as
1923 he had printed with lines cut on wood, but
this was only a small mechanical advance on what
had been done for many years.
Nylographic printing, or taking of impressions
from wooden tables, on which letters or figures
were engraved. had previously been practiced in
Germany. This was an eastern invention. 1t
came from China and Japan, whore it is still in
use. Among the japanese, from time immcmorial,
the art of taking impressions in wax has been
exercised, and these curious and isolate people
claim the merit Of having originated photographic
printing.
Topographic printing, or the taking of impress
sions from immoyable wooden or metal types,
began properly in 1909. The oldest work typo
graphically executed was a Latin Bible, Which was
published in Hoo.
A man named John Faust, or Faustus, became
associated with Guttemburg and did much to I'M
prove the art the latter had invented. The Bibles
then extant were in manuscript, and the writing OF
them gave profitable employment to many Monks.
In I462, Faust went to Paris to sell the Bible he
had printed, when the monks fearing his business
WOulu SO interfere WITH lheTS us 10 Ieliuer tncr
copying labor unnecessary, opposed him bitterly,
and appealed to the prejudices and superstitions of
the people by declaring that he was lcagued with
the Father Of lies. Faust became alarmed, on ac-
count of the violence of their persecution, and fled
from Paris, hence arose the tradition that Satan
mysteriously conducted the printer to his invisible
kingdom.
From Germany, printing was first carried into
Italy it was next practiscd in France. 1t was
introduced in England by William Cation, about
the year l74l.
Guttemburg, at first took impressions from his
types by fastening them upon a tablc-coloring
them v 18th writing ink-sproading the paper over
them and pressing it with a rubber of horn.
Faust Invented printing ink, aId Guttemburg
constructed a rude printing press. Iron presses
were earliest employed by Lord S~tanhopo Of Eng
land.
1t was not until l746 that the titles of books
were printed on u separate page-titlcs to chap
ters had been used rs early as 1910, but then
there were no capital letters, nor any marks Of
punctuation.
Printing was regarded with marked suspicion
by the powers of even cultivated England. For
a 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 1t has
every where been, and must ever be the direct
foe of tyranny and b~igotry-of illiberality and
prejudice and. therefore, it is true that in every
country of the world but in'America, it has been,
and is now, subject to more or less embarrassing
restriction,
The men who came to the shores of New
England had more enlarged IDEAS of the power
ana usefulness of printing, than the mass of their
fellow Englishmen-among whom they lowered
like church stecples among business edifces on
our city strcets-and yet after many years their
descendants aud the descendants of those who
Joined them in the New World, were extremely
cautious how they encouraged printing, 1t was
Watched and guarded rs IL medium of great good
nj. rroot bnr,n nonA,l,nr IN tln EloNtr ,, E,nn.ol
granted it.
The first Printing Press set up in America
was worked" at Cambridge, Mass, in 1929.
Rev. Jesse Glover procured this press by econ
tributions of friends of learning and religion" in
Amsterdam and IN England, but died on his pas
sage to the New World.
Stephen Day was the first printer. In honor of
his pioneer position, Government gave him u grant
of three hundred acres of land.
The third book published Wy him was "the
Psalms in Metre" In 1851, the New Testament,
and Baxtcr's Call, translated into the Indian Ian
guage by Elro: the great Missionary, were printed
at a cost of $4,000. The title might be recon-
mendcd on account Of its obscurity and high
sounding character to some of the writer's of books
nowadays, 1t was d" Uusku- UuHcSAementum
laILordinum Jesus Christ Nopptqhwussaaenen-
man,"
The whole Bible was printed in this language
in 1868. The nation speaking it is now extinct.
Pennsylvania was the second State to en- cour-
age printing. William Bradford who came to Penn
sylvania with William Penn, in 1856, established
Il printing press in Philadelphia, its first issue
was an almanac for 1857 it was but Il sheet.
The first book printed by Mr.. Bradford was a
collection of essays by Francis Bacon. 1t APP
reared in 1888, and was called 1.-THE Temple of
Wisdom"
In 1862, Mr.. Bradford was induced to establish
q printing press in New York. lie received G4O
per annum, and the privilege of printing on his
own account. Previous to this time, there had
been no printing done in the Province Of New
York. His first issue in New York was a procla-
nation, bearing the date of 1892.
The first paper mill erected in America, was at
Elizlbethtown, New-Jersey, which William Bra
ford, Royal Printer of New York, New Jersey end
Pennsylvania purchased in l72S. In 1870, the
second went into operation at Boston, the Legisla-
ture of Mass, granting aid.
In the time Of the Proctectorate, the Governor of
Virginia congratulated his people in the following
words 81 thank God there is not a printing press
or a free School within my province"
1t was nearly a century after a printing press
had been set up in England, before one would be
tolerated in Virginia. The colonists had no print
ing done among them till lT27.-Ltulor .Uagazine.
LITERATURE OF WAR.