“Death and the Printers”from Le Danse Macabre (Matthias Huss: Lyons, 1499) The first-ever image of the printing press appears, strangely, as a story of Death. Printing was developed across the 1450s in a halting progress of experimentation. Johannes Gutenberg had taken a number of loans for various financial schemes. Printing paid off, but not quickly …
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