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Rh that the following tables of the spread of printing have been made up. They are based on the chronological arrangement of Santander's Dictionary, but the names and dates have been collated with those of Cotton's Typographical Gazetteer, and other works of authority, and some alterations have been made.

This is but a brief list for the vast and populous country north of Italy and east of France and the Netherlands. Not less remarkable is the fact that some cities now deservedly famous for their printing were among the last to acquire a knowledge of the art, and those that gave it feeble support.

The master printers at Mentz before 1500, not previously named, were: Erhardus Reuwich, whose first book was dated 1486; Frederic Misch, who began after 1490; Jacob Meydenbach (a witness at the trial of 1455), between 1491 and 1496; and Peter Friedburg, between 1494 and 1497. There may