Printing Press Free Essay, Term Paper and Book Report
Printing Press
I believe that everyone has heard the phrase, "The pen is mightier than the sword." This statement I cannot argue, but the point I want to make is that the printing press is the mightiest of them all.
The origin of printing itself was only the first stage in the development of books as we know them.
To understand the modern book, one should know of its history and realize the gradual process it came from since the pre-written manuscript.
THERE WERE FOUR DISTINCT PHASES IN THIS METAMORPHOSIS (Butler xi).
1. In the beginning, this was just a means for performing a writer's work more quickly, neatly, and cheaply than was possible by hand labor (Butler xi).
2. Only gradually did the early printers and their clients understand to accept the technical limitations of typography and to exploit its peculiarities (Butler xii).
3. The discovery of true publication (Butler xiii).
4. The printed book entered into the fourth phase of its metamorphosis - it became a major factor in history (Butler xiii).
The origin of the mechanical process was the ......
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