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Joos Lambrecht Publishes the First Illustration of an Adjustable Type-Mould

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Cornelis van der Heyden: Corte instruccye ende onderwys. 'Vermaen tot der ambachsman. British Museum. 843. e. 17(6). Reproduced in Carter (2002) figure 7.
Cornelis van der Heyden: Corte instruccye ende onderwys. 'Vermaen tot der ambachsman. British Museum. 843. e. 17(6).
Reproduced in Carter (2002) figure 7.

The first illustration of a typefounder's mould adjustable for width of opening was published in Cornelis van der Heyden, Corte instruccye ende onderwys printed by Joos Lambrecht at Ghent, Belgium.

Carter, A View of Early Typography up to about 1600, Reprinted with an Introduction by James Mosley (2002) 9.

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