The Zum Jungen.--The Old Valet.--A Happy Change.--Going over the Process anew.--Good Progress.--Peter Schoeffer 140
Working of the Press.--The Medallion.--An Acquisition.-- Experiments.--A Failure.--Schoeffer’s Invention.--Discovery of Cast Metal Type 148
Schoeffer admitted to the Firm.--A Grand Project.--How a Bible was borrowed.--The Early Press.--Processes in Bookmaking.-- Ingenuity of Peter Schoeffer.--Industry of the Firm.--Ink.-- Cast Type.--Three Ingenious Men.--Letter-founding.--Faust compliments Peter.--The first Printed Page of the Bible.--A Memorable Year 155
Faust’s Discontent.--Conspiracy against Gutenberg.--A Secret kept.--The Lawsuit.--Gutenberg supplanted.--A New Firm.-- Gutenberg’s Sorrow 168
The Story of Faust’s Visit to Paris.--Was it Witchcraft?-- Popular Excitement.--Scene in a Court Room.--Issue of the Psalter 182
New Friends.--The Nun.--Gutenberg at Work again.--Printing of the “Balbus de Janua.”--Other Works.--A Curious Record.-- Death of the Great Inventor.--Fadeless Laurels 192
Faust and Schoeffer’s Success.--More Books issued.--An Eventful Year.--Greek Type.--Struck by the Plague.--The Parisians and Faust’s Descendants.--Schoeffer’s Death.--Testimony to Gutenberg.--Extension of the Art.--Piety and Chess.-- Education in the Olden Time.--Unveiling the Statue 206
Peculiarities of the First Printed Books.--Early Printers.-- Piety and Chess.--Education in the Olden Time.--A Great Enterprise.--Unveiling Gutenberg’s Statue 217
Modes of making Type.--Varieties of Type.--Cylindrical Ink-distributor.--A Modern Printing Establishment.-- Composition Room.--Cases.--Proof-reading 225
Type-setting by Machinery.--Its Practicability.--Various Machines devised.--The Brown Type-setter and Distributer described.--Simplicity.--Reliability.--Speed 235
Stereotyping.--Plaster Moulds.--Planing and Beveling.-- Correcting Stereotype Plates.--Process of Electrotyping.--The “Guillotine.”--Ornamenting 247
The Hand-press.--Earl Stanhope’s Press.--Improvements.-- Cylinder Presses.--Press-room.--Drying Room.--Sewing Room. --Elevator.--Books for the Blind.--Type, Press, and Paper invented.--Catalogue of Great Exhibition.--Estimate of Rapid Labor by Machinery 263
Time of the Great Invention.--A First Gift.--Discovery of the Alphabet.--A New Era.--Royal Printers.--Knights of Type and Pen.--A Mighty Engine.--Gutenberg’s Dream.--The Press mighty 281