Early Printed Books

The spellings of Schœffer and Schoeffer have been left as printed.
Footnotes were moved to the ends of the text they pertain to and numbered in one continuous sequence.
Differences in hyphenation of specific words and missing punctuation have been rectified where applicable.
FROM SCHOEFFER’S CANON OF THE MASS
E. Gordon Duff
London
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.
MDCCCXCIII
THE MEMORY OF
HENRY BRADSHAW
ἀποθανὼν ἔτι λαλεῖ
In the following pages I have endeavoured to give a short account of the introduction of printing into the principal countries and towns of Europe, and to bring our information on the subject as far as possible up to date.