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Page 886 - ... had been entirely exhausted by taking proof impressions from the stones; nor was there even a drop of ink in the inkstand. As the matter would not admit of delay, and we had nobody in the house to send for a supply of the deficient materials, I resolved to write the list with my ink prepared with wax, soap, and lampblack, on the stone which I had just polished, and from which I could copy it at leisure.
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| Title | Typographia, an historical sketch of the origin and progress of the art of printing |
| Author | Thomas Curson Hansard |
| Publisher | Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1825 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 939 pages |
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