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58 he says: “Wood-engraving and copperplate-engraving were not alone of use in the advance of art; they form an epoch in the entire life of mind and culture. The idea embodied



and multiplied in pictures became, like that embodied in the printed word, the herald of every intellectual movement.”

As typography spread from Germany through the other countries of Europe, the art of wood engraving accompanied it. The first books printed in the French language appeared about 1475, at Bruges, where the Dukes of Burgundy had long favored the vulgar tongue, and had collected