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the spread of printing.

Gouda and Antwerp. Gerard Leeu, the most industrious^[1] printer of his time, began to print at Gouda in 1477, but he went to Antwerp in 1484, where he continued to print until his death in 1493. Imitating Verard of Paris, he gave his later years to the translation and printing of romances and popular books. In 1493, he began to print Caxton's Chronicle of England, in English and obviously for sale in England, but he died before the work was finished.^[2]

IN ITALY.

This is the order in which printing was established in Italy:

Place.	Printer.	Date.	⁠	Place.	Printer.	Date.
Subiaco	Sweinheym & Pannartz	1465		Mondovi	Antonio Mathiae, et al	1472
Rome	Sweinheym & Pannartz	1467		Jesi	Frederic Veronensis	1472
Venice	John de Spira	1469		Cremona	Paravisinus, et al	1472
Milan	Anthony Zarot	1470		Parma	Andrew Portiglia	1473
Foligno	John Nummeister	1470		Brescia	Thomas Ferrandus	1473
Trevi	John Reynard	1470		Messina	Henry Aiding	1473
Verona	John of Verona	1470		Vicenza	John de Reno	1473
Treviso	Gerard de Lisa	1471		Como	De Orcho, et al	1474
Bologna	Balthazar Azzoguidi	1471		Turin	Fabri and John de Petro	1474
Ferrara	Andrew Belfort	1471		Genoa	Matthew Moravus, et al	1474
Naples	Sixtus Riessinger	1471		Modena	John Vurster	1475
Pavia	Antonio de Carcano	1471		Trent	Hermann Schindeleyp	1476
Florence	Bernard Cennini	1471		Palermo	Andrew de Wormatia	1477
Fivizano	Jacobus and others	1472		Ascoli	William de Linis	1477
Padua	Balt. de Valdezochio	1472		Lucca	Bart. de Civitali	1477
Mantua	Pietro Adam de Michael	1472		Casal	William de Canepa	1481

Cotton, in his Typographical Gazetteer, specifies thirty-seven other places in Italy in which printing was done before 1500.

↑ He printed eight books in 1478; seven in 1479; nine in 1480; ten in 1482. In fifteen days he printed three books, one of 85, and another of 305 leaves. During the seventeen years he was in business he printed 150 books. His last book at Gouda was dated June 23, 1484; on the 1 8th of September, 1484, he published at Antwerp, a book of 400 pages. Fifteen days after, he completed another book. During the first six months of 1485, he published one volume each month. One of these books had 34, and another 76 engravings specially cut for the work.
↑ The colophon of this book is a queer piece of mysterious English:…Enprentyd in the duchye of Braband, in the town of Andewarpe, in the yere of our Lord m. cccc. xciill. By maistir Gerard de Leew, a man of grete wysedom in all maner of kunyng: whych nowe is come from Lyfe unto the doth, which is grete harme for many of poure man. On whas sowle God almythy for hys hygh grace haue mercy. Amen. Van der Meersch. Imprimeurs Belges et Néerlandais, vol. i, p. 119.

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[1] He printed eight books in 1478; seven in 1479; nine in 1480; ten in 1482. In fifteen days he printed three books, one of 85, and another of 305 leaves. During the seventeen years he was in business he printed 150 books. His last book at Gouda was dated June 23, 1484; on the 1 8th of September, 1484, he published at Antwerp, a book of 400 pages. Fifteen days after, he completed another book. During the first six months of 1485, he published one volume each month. One of these books had 34, and another 76 engravings specially cut for the work.

[2] The colophon of this book is a queer piece of mysterious English:…Enprentyd in the duchye of Braband, in the town of Andewarpe, in the yere of our Lord m. cccc. xciill. By maistir Gerard de Leew, a man of grete wysedom in all maner of kunyng: whych nowe is come from Lyfe unto the doth, which is grete harme for many of poure man. On whas sowle God almythy for hys hygh grace haue mercy. Amen. Van der Meersch. Imprimeurs Belges et Néerlandais, vol. i, p. 119.

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