[41] “The Old Printer and the Modern Press.” p. 102. London, 1854.
[42] Other witnesses also deposed to purchases, and in the judgment given on the suit, some of these are referred to as having been of lead.
[43] The documents containing an account of the trial, and the sentence of the magistrates of Strasburg, are dated December 1439. They were originally published with a Latin version, by Schöpflin, in his Vindiciæ Typographicæ, 1760, and have since been repeatedly printed with French, English and Dutch translations.
[44] In his “Dissertation sur l’Origine, l’Invention, et le Perfectionnement de l’Imprimerie,” printed at Amsterdam in 1819. This work was the one which obtained the prize offered by the Dutch Society of Arts and Sciences at Haarlem, about the year 1814, for the best Dissertation in support of the ancient tradition that the Art of Printing was invented in that city.
[45] In certain parts of the north of Scotland augers and high-pitched screws are to this day called ‘wommels’ or ‘wombels,’ by old folk. The word is no doubt the same as the antiquated German ‘wurbel.’
“Quid, si nunc justos, aeris ratione reducta,
Tentarem libros cudere mille modis?
Robora prospexit dehinc torcularia Bacchi,
Et dixit, preli forma sit ista novi.”