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emphasis to one central thought,
by means of 3 pictures, brief
description briefer quotation and short rhyming
couplet.

The Book is to this age - in
itself - attractive, as showing not only the doctrine and morals, but also the
costumes - the architecture - the
aesthetic taste or pictorial
sense of Europe at the close
of the dark ages, expressed
through the vehicle of
crude - but bold wood engraving.

Very soon after the
brief day of block books
follows the invention of
printing, and Petrus Schoyeffer --
who has part and
credit in this revolution - after
dissolving partnership with the other members
Faust and Gutenberg, erects

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