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JAMES WATSON
The HISTORY of the Invention and Progress of the Mysterious Art of PRINTING & c.
From The History of the Art of Printing ... printed by James Watson, Edinburgh, 1713.
If the Ignorant look upon PRINTING without admiring It; it is, because they do not understand the same: The Learned have always judged far otherways; and have, with Reason, thought, That, for almost the Three Ages wherein this Wonder hath been seen in Europe, the Wit of Man did never invent any Thing that was either more lucky, or more useful for Instruction.