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feems to me not To rare as at firft, fince I have had a fight 
of that at Bennet College in Cambridge, and thofe at Oje«> 
ford ^ which will alfo enable me to give a further Ac- 
count than hitherto hath been done, by the help of 
fome Books that have been procured me by my Friends 
Intereft, as that of Naudeus his Story of Printing in the 
Life of Lewis XI. in Mr. Bajle’s Colleftion, procured me 
by Mr. Leers of Amfterdam , who got the Favour for my 
Friend Mr. Bui lord, to Tranflate that part which relates 
to the Hiftory of Printing, the Story of Fauft, See. and' 
the firft Printing at Paris, as well as at Mentz$ this con- 
tains 16 Sheets in MS. with other Critical Difcourfe, re- 
lating to Learning and Books that were firft printed. 
Thefe I have been in fearch for many Years, and am apt 
to believe there is never an one in England. 
One Boob more I want to fee, and fhould beextreamly 
fatisfy’d, if any one could procure me the fight of it. It 
is a fmall Trad wrote by Draudius in fmali Twelves. The 
Devices of the Printers. 
I have had the Chronicle of Collen, which Naudeus 
could never fee, and alfo a Book printed at Leipfwick in 
the German Language, giving an Account of the Jubilee 
kept there in Memory of Printing and its Invention, Tran- 
flated into Engli/h by my Friend and Correfpondent 
Mr. Bullard ; with many other T rafts relating to the firft 
Invention of Printing. 
I have fpamd for no Coft or Pains in procuring of Co- 
pies of Books, where they are to be had, for the illuftra- 
ting it in all its parts to fatisfie the Curious. Now as 
Printing it felf is but another way of Writing, and 
brought to perfeftion by degrees, as other Arts $ and as 
Piftures either painted, cut in Wood, or Graved, were 
called the Laymens Books $ for every one could read a 
Pjfture, and fay this is an Houfe, and that a Tree 5 fo I 
may fay, that the Piftures, or Drawings of the Ancients, 
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