Laurens Janszoon Coster

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Laurens Janszoon Coster The Dutch have claimed for hundreds of years that Laurens Janszoon Coster [or: Koster] (b. ca 1370, d. ca 1440) printed the first book in Haarlem (The Netherlands), ca. 1440, well before Johann Gutenberg in Mainz in 1452. There is no hard evidence to support or refute this claim, but Jan Middendorp in his "Dutch Type" (2004) categorically calls it a myth. From the link, I cite: "Warren Chappell's oft-referenced A Short History of the Printed Word, published in 1970, states that the "quality of the early Dutch type-making and printing still extant is so markedly inferior to Gutenberg's that the possibility of a few years' priority is less important than Gutenberg's results."	EXTERNAL LINKS Laurens Janszoon Coster MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS History of type ⦿ Dutch type design ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿

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