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Check out this week's #PrintFactFriday featuring printing titan John Baskerville and Roman poet Virgil.
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Learn the history of the 14th century text "Book of Nature" in this week's #PrintFactFriday.
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#DidYouKnow? Inventor and Newburyport native Jacob Perkins started a printing business after creating steel engraving plates, which made bank notes difficult to counterfeit. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? In 1860, English activist Emily Faithfull established a printing press in London to bolster employment opportunities for women; she would go on to become the printer and publisher for Queen Victoria. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? The first Arabic book printed from movable type is the “Kitab salat al-sawai,” which was most likely printed in Venice. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? The first patented typesetting machine was designed by inventor William Church; in his patent specification, he described the machine as "An Improved Apparatus for Printing." #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? In 1884, realist painter Charles Frederick Ulrich completed work on a portrait of the town printing shop in Haarlem, Holland. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? In the nineteenth century, Bostonian inventor Isaac Adams revolutionized printing with the introduction of the Adams Power Press, which subsequently became the preeminent machine for book production. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? The first issue of British daily newspaper The Times was printed using a Koenig & Bauer, steam-powered printing press, which could produce over a thousand unperforated sheets per hour. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? The first printed portrait of a living, private individual appeared in Paulus Attavanti’s Breviarium totius juris canonici, sive Decretorum breviarium, and depicts the author in profile as he writes at his desk. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? The first printing press in France was developed by scholars Johann Heynlin and Guillaume Fichet at the Sorbonne in the fifteenth century. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? The first rotary press was patented in 1813 by English journalist Richard Mackenzie Bacon and engineer Bryan Donkin. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? Paper manufacturer Ira Rubel inadvertently developed the offset press after failing to insert paper into his lithographic press. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? Italian #printer and publisher Giuseppe Pomba built Italy’s first modern publishing house and also installed Italy’s first #printing machine. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? John Lydgate’s “The Complaint of the Black Knight” is the oldest surviving book printed in Scotland with a printing date of April 4, 1508. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? The earliest form of printing originated in ancient Mesopotamia and involved stamping inscriptions into the soft clay of bricks. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? The first printed illustration of a printing shop appeared in “La Grant Danse Macabre” by Matthias Huss. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? In the sixteenth century, Merchant Walter Chepman and bookseller Androw Myllar established the first #printing press in Scotland after receiving a royal license from King James IV. #PrintFactFriday
#DidYouKnow? In the 17th century, German #printer Hieronymus Hornschuch released Orthotypographia, the first editor's and printer's manual. #PrintFactFriday
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