CONTENTS

Introduction 7
   
   
Chapter I
   
Conditions in the Middle of the Fifteenth Century 11
   
   
Chapter II
   
Steps Toward Typography 17
   
   
Chapter III
   
Claims to the Invention 26
   
   
Chapter IV
   
The Invention 32
   
   
Chapter V
   
Materials and Methods of the First Printers 47
   
   
Supplementary Reading 52
   
   
Review Questions 53