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  • ...the '''verso''' the left-hand page. These are terms of art in the binding, printing, and publishing industries, and can be applied more broadly to any field wh ...advantage of the [[printing-press]] over the much older Asian [[woodblock printing]] method, which printed by rubbing from behind the page being printed, and
    3 KB (428 words) - 17:00, 21 September 2012
  • ...it was reprinted in Venice again, but this time based on the 1540s Bologna printing. ...e text (but omitted additions made in the 1540s printing) and replaced the woodblock images with smaller copperplates by [[Giovanni Battista Fontana]]; it was p
    11 KB (1,380 words) - 22:31, 18 October 2023
  • ...prosperous worker to own a few. The print revolution followed soon after: woodblock and copperplate prints became common by the middle of the 15th century, and ...realized that a lot of buyers didn't care about the decorations, and began printing low-budget, small-format books with little decoration and with a new "itali
    8 KB (1,290 words) - 12:44, 9 April 2021
  • ...prosperous worker to own a few. The print revolution followed soon after: woodblock and copperplate prints became common by the middle of the 15th century, and ...realized that a lot of buyers didn't care about the decorations, and began printing low-budget, small-format books with little decoration and with a new "itali
    8 KB (1,299 words) - 03:19, 12 May 2021
  • ...ancesco Valesio]]. At some point, probably during or immediately after the printing, a second title page was created with a much longer title (using the same d ...aced the elaborate copperplate engravings of the original with rudimentary woodblock figures. This edition was reissued in Nuremberg in ca. 1650. Another German
    26 KB (3,494 words) - 18:45, 10 April 2024
  • ...me the most successful publisher in Germany, eventually owning twenty-four printing-presses and having many offices in Germany and abroad. His most famous publ ...to work with block cutters. Dürer either drew his design directly onto the woodblock itself, or glued a paper drawing to the block. Either way, his drawings wer
    56 KB (8,410 words) - 03:40, 19 October 2023