Excerpt from The Development of Printing as an Art, Vol. 2: A Handbook of the Exhibiton in Honor of the Bi-Centenary of Franklin's Birth Held at the Boston Public Library Under the Auspices of the Society of Printers<br><br>The examples of German printing, which are the earliest known, were immediately surpassed in excel lence by the work executed in Italy, then the home 'of scholarship, whither the German printers naturally carried it. It is Italy, therefore, which exerted the first great influence in the Development of Printing as an Art, and the exhibition begins with books produced in this country.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.