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Standing type or stereotype in the seventeenth century'

Standing type or stereotype in the seventeenth century' KEES GNIRREP Standing type or stereotype in the seventeenth century' In 1870, P.A. Leupe published an article in De .Navorscher under the promising heading, 'Stereotype printing of Bibles in the yth century'.2 It published a 1673 request for a privilege, from a company formed by Susanna Veselaer - better known as the widow Schipper(s), Anna Maria Stam, and Joseph Athias, all from Amsterdam. They request an exclusive privilege for the printing and selling of English Bibles. One of the arguments presented for the privilege is that they incurred great expense by printing these Bibles 'following an invention for such work, discovered and used by no one except the petitioners'. The invention is this: that the work to be printed 'always remains standing in its formes, so that an entire Bible can be printed in only a few days'. The Provincial Council of Holland granted the privilege on 4 December 1673. Leupe concludes that Bibles printed as early as the second half of the seven- teenth century used the famous stereotype technique of the Lutheran clergyman Johannes Muller in Leiden at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Much has been said about Muller's working methods.3 He appears to have http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaerendo Brill

Standing type or stereotype in the seventeenth century'

Gnirrep, Kees; Lane, John A.
Quaerendo , Volume 27 (1): 19 – Jan 1, 1997
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© 1997 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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KEES GNIRREP Standing type or stereotype in the seventeenth century' In 1870, P.A. Leupe published an article in De .Navorscher under the promising heading, 'Stereotype printing of Bibles in the yth century'.2 It published a 1673 request for a privilege, from a company formed by Susanna Veselaer - better known as the widow Schipper(s), Anna Maria Stam, and Joseph Athias, all from Amsterdam. They request an exclusive privilege for the printing and selling of English Bibles. One of the arguments presented for the privilege is that they incurred great expense by printing these Bibles 'following an invention for such work, discovered and used by no one except the petitioners'. The invention is this: that the work to be printed 'always remains standing in its formes, so that an entire Bible can be printed in only a few days'. The Provincial Council of Holland granted the privilege on 4 December 1673. Leupe concludes that Bibles printed as early as the second half of the seven- teenth century used the famous stereotype technique of the Lutheran clergyman Johannes Muller in Leiden at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Much has been said about Muller's working methods.3 He appears to have

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