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^Boxhormu^ f as I remember ) as well as SchreveV$it and 
other Authors, do expreisly (ay, f and if they had not, it 
snig' t well be imagin'd ) that Kofler could not advance this 
Invention fo far, as to Print fo large a Work as the Speculum 
5W//.^i^ Without gradual Improvements 5 and that his firft 
Eliays were on loofe and fmall leaves of Paper, before he 
attempted Booh^ Thefc being loofe and fingle, are 
ftppos^d to be all loft : but I once obferv'd a loofe leaf of 
Paper iti OQavo^ lying in an old MS. Bnviary inher Majefty s 
Royal Library at 5*^ Jawes s^ which I then thought ( and 
ftill in the fame opinion; that 'tw^ one of Kojier's firft 
Pieces 5 done when he had attain d to fome Experience in 
the Art, and to get Money* Tis a little rude Wooden Cut, 
of the five Wounds of our Bleffed Saviour, and the Inftru# 
ments othis Paflion, with a Latin Infcription at the bot* 
torn, to thii purport, that Thofe who ftiould fay fo many 
Ave Maria's before it, ftiould havq fo many thoufand years 
joi Pardon. In this Cut or Print, the Ink which made it 
was Writing Inky and 'twas all Black, without thofe other 
Colours with which jPC^^er feems afterwards to have adorn d 
his Books. 
Inthe aboveiHcntioned Boxhomiu/shook de Origins Artk 
Typographic^ y 'tis faid, that Hadrianus Junius had a Book 
Printed by Kojier^md like that keptin the Cheft at Harlaem : 
IsJow amongft thofe Bequeath'd to the Bodkyan Library at 
Oxford^ by yiv Franck Junius (who was a Kinfraan of Ha- 
drian$) there is a thin Book in a fmall Folio (Numbred 91.) 
which may probably be the farae^ and which Mr -F<?//, a 
learned and curious Danijb Gentleman, did affure me' was 
very like to that at Harlaem* This contains the Sum of 
the Hifiory of the Old Tefianteni^ all reprefented in rude 
Wooden Cuts , colored with divers colors , without 
ShadomMkc to our Cards^ ("which, with Sheet* Ballads^ are 
remains of the old manner of Printing,) and Stamp'd upon 
«0ne Side only j the white fides of two I^eaves being pafted 
to- 
