| 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 |