• Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
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      6 hours ago

      Wrong.

      Howso? I was (non-seriously) referring to the way that the printing presses after Caxton were increasingly regulated by the English government starting in the 15th Century and reaching a high-point in the middle-16th. Fear of the wide transmission of printed materials made them do silly things like only allowing certain numbers of books before the plates had to be smashed. Remember England was a country that had prohibited printed versions of the Bible in English not long before. I’m not sure what your point about Gutenberg is.

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      7 hours ago

      By the 1450s, Johannes Gutenberg’s movable type and printing innovations gave rise to early printed books (incunabula) such the Gutenberg Bible and the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle, which used mass-produced books with woodcuts for illustrations.