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Excerpt from The Museum of Science and Art, Vol. 11 According to Du Halde and certain missionaries, the art of printing from blocks carved in relief was practised in China fifty years before the Christian era; and, from the early commercial intercourse of the Venetians with that country, there is reason to believe that the knowledge of this art, in its application to the multiplying of books, was originally derived from thence, for Venice is the first place in Europe in which it is recorded to have been practised. 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.
