Early Typography

PRINTED AT COLOMBO, BY WILLIAM SKEEN, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON.
EARLY TYPOGRAPHY.
BY WILLIAM SKEEN.
COLOMBO: CEYLON. 1872.
The accumulation of materials in the writer’s hands in the course of the last twelve months, has induced him to depart from his original intention of limiting his labours to a single book. A sketch of the history of the spread of the Art, after the sack of Mentz in 1462, with notices of the most material improvements and recent inventions connected with it, will, consequently, form the subjects of a separate volume. It only remains for him now thankfully to acknowledge his obligations to Mrs. J. Ferguson, and Messrs. Iliff, Ronald, and Paatz, of Colombo, for their most kindly rendered assistance, by which he has been enabled to complete this portion of his work much earlier than he otherwise could have done.
January 20, 1872.
Inventors of the Art Sublime
Which Knowledge spreads thro’ every clime;
Who far the fabled god excell’d,
Prometheus, from heaven expell’d.
Material fire he brought to earth,
They flames of a diviner birth