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Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition Illustrating the Varied Interests of Book Buyers, 1450-1600: Selected Mainly From the Collections of Members of the Club of Odd Volumes, and Held at the Club House, 50 Mt; Vernon Street, March 18 to March 26, 1922 The technical crudity of much of their work suggests that they may have acquired their training before the details of the invention had been perfected. This lack of skill is shown by two facing pages in dionysius DE buroo's Commentary on Valeria; M axz'mw, on one of which Rusch used over 300 contractions in order to get the necessary text onto the page, whereas the next has less than a quarter as many. Rusch is better known as the R Printer, from his use of a peculiar capital R in some of the books supposed to have been printed by him. As neither he nor Mentelin ordinarily put any name, place, or date on their work, their books have to be identified by peculiarities of the type. 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.