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the spread of printing.

prosperity of his rivals, for there were seventeen master type-printers and many block-printers at Nuremberg before 1500. Koburger's most curious book is the Nuremberg Chronicle

Fac-simile, reduced, of part of Koburger's Map of Europe.
[Photographed from Mr. Bruce's copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle.]

of 1493, a large and thick folio, edited or compiled by Hartmann Schedel, as a summary of the history, geography and wonders of the world. It contains more than two thousand