Excerpt from A List of Books on the History and Art of Printing: And Some Related Subjects in the Public Library of the City of Boston and the Libraries of Harvard College and the Boston Athenaeum Moon, George Washington. The oldest type-printed book in existence: a disquisition on the relative antiquity of the Pfister and Mazarine Bibles of the 65-line A Catholicon. Prefaced by a brief history of the invention of printing. London, 1901. Facsimiles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.