Paper & paper making, ancient and modern / by Richard Herring: With introduction, by the Rev. George Croly, L.L.D.

  • Herring, Richard, 1829-
Date:
1856
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Credit: Paper & paper making, ancient and modern / by Richard Herring: With introduction, by the Rev. George Croly, L.L.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. BY THE REV. GEORGE CROLY, LL. D. Having been present at the delivery of these Lectures, and feeling an interest in them, as the performance of my intelligent friend, and pa¬ rishioner, Mr. Herring, I have added, at his request, a few preliminary observations, on the chief employment of paper in our day, namely, in Printing. It is a striking, and perhaps a significant, coin¬ cidence, that the art of making paper from linen fibre, and the art of printing, were discovered nearly at the same time, and were coeval with the first preaching of the Reformation; by Huss and Jerome of Prague, of whom Luther was only the more eminent successor—the whole three events dating from the fifteenth century. It is certain, that printing was the great in¬ strument of the Reformation in Germany, and of s])reading it through Europe; and it is equally certain, that the making of paper, by means of