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  • Illustrirte Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst 288
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  • There is a sample of BREITKOPF's map printing in enclosure 9. The way in the XVIII. Century maps were made. could, however, lead a man like BREITKOPF to the idea of ​​producing maps typographically, since HAAS in Basel had also tried this. Incidentally, BREITKOPF remarked in the brochure he published in 1777 on the printing of geographical maps that the samples of his invention contained therein would hardly have come to light if he had not wished to rid himself of the suspicion that his invention was later arrived as HAAS in Basel with his; he criticizes HAAS's attempt, which he calls more "opus musivum than typogra phicum", helped along with clay and chewed paper, as one has long known of this kind in the printers. I have not seen the original sentence, but LoRCK says in the one cited above Works: The movement, which has survived to this day, eliminates any suspicion that files, knives, unregulated exclusion or any other means were used to help; all pieces are strictly systematic and simply strung together as in each movement." Thanks to the goodness of the BREITKOPF & HARTEL company in Leipzig, I am able to offer the reader a copy of a cliché made from the original typesetting. This sheet, which, like the printing of sheet music and portrait typesetting, is a model of typographical skill, certainly deserves a place in a history of the art of printing, it is a triumph of spirit over matter, and as far as practical significance is concerned, a such a sentence would probably not have caused more trouble than an identical woodcut. When we read that FRIEDRICH AUGUST, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony 1707-1710, had an atlas printed in Amsterdam, which was produced at a cost of 19,000 Thaleru, and in which the writing on the maps was printed in gold, so it is much more appropriate to ask, What practical use did this work have?

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