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gures, or rather the Types of the Old and NewTefta- 
uient. They have not fo many Specimens of the firft 
Printing at Harlem , as vve have in England 3 and if I can 
obtain the favour of either Univerfity, I yvili give you 
a Specimen of two or three, as exadf as they are printed. 
1 am apt to believe, that if fome curious Perfons had the 
Liberty of looking over the Libraries in both Univerfities, 
and that in Grejbam College, their might be found other 
Specimens of the Antient Printing 5 the aforementioned 
Books being taken notice of but of late. 
The Cutting of the Molds or Blocks for making our 
Slaying Cards, is after the fame manner as thofe for the. 
Books printed at Harlem. They lay a Sheet of moift or 
wet Paper on the Form or Block, being firft lightly brufh'd 
over with Ink, made of Lamp-black mix’d with Starch 
and Water Then they rub it off with a round Lift with 
their band, which is donG with great Expedition 3 this 
is for Pifture or Court Card* : Then they pafte them toge- 
ther threefold* the courfeft in the middle. They colour 
them by the help of feveral Patterns, or Stanefiles, as they 
call them 3 . they are Card Paper cut thro’ with a Penknife, 
for every Colour, as Red, &c. (for at the firft Printing, 
the Card has only a meer Out Line :) Thefe Patterns are 
Painted with Oyl-Colours, to keep them from wearing 
out with the Brufhes ^ they lay it upon the Pi6ture, and 
by Aiding a Brufh that is full and loofe gently over the 
Pattern, it fixes the Colour into the cut Holes, and leaves 
it on the Print that is to be a Card, and fo go-through 
all the Colours you fee on Cards 3 but this. cannot be fo 
well underftood by a Defcription, as by feeing them per- 
form it. This I humbly conceive to be their way of. 
Printing firft at Uarlent , and thofe Books abovemen tioned. 
This methinks might have been confidered before this 
(time oir Day, if they would have put themfelves to the 
^trouble of infpeefingthe old MSS. 900 Years old 3 for the 
Creat Letters are done by the Illuminators the fame way 
as 
