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" Wynken de Worde; and the author complains, that he was obliged to omit his whole third part, because the printer had no Hebrew types. Some few Hebrew and Arabic characters, however, are introduced, but extremely rude, *and evidently cut in wood. They... "
Athenae Cantabrigienses - Page 64
by Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858
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The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh to the ...

Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1778 - 570 pages
...laudibus et militate trium linguarum Arabic f, Chaldaicf, et Hebraic*, Sec. 410. The printer was Wynkyn de Worde ; and the author complains, that he was obliged to omit his whole third part, becaufe the printer had no Hebrew types. Some few Hebrew and Arabic characters, however, are introduced...
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Typographical Antiquities; Or The History of Printing in England ..., Volume 1

Joseph Ames - Early printed books - 1810 - 716 pages
...laudibus & utilitate trium linguarum, Arabic*, Chaldaicae, et Hebraicae," &c. 4to. The printer was Wynkyn de Worde ; and the author complains that he was obliged...wood. They are the first of the sort used in England.* It was a circumstance favourable at least to English literature, owing indeed to the general illiteracy...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 30

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 528 pages
...atque idiomatibus Hebraicis quae in utroque Testamento inveniuntur," 1524, 4to. The primer was Wynken de Worde; and the author complains, that he was obliged...because the printer had no Hebrew types. Some few Hebrew anu Arabic characters, however, are introduced, but extremely rude, and evidently cut in wood. They...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Biography - 1813 - 536 pages
...no Hebrew types. There are, however, some few Hebrew and Arabic characters introduced ; but they are extremely rude, and evidently cut in wood. They are the first of the sort used in England. It was a circumstance favourable at least to English literature, that the illiteracy of the times obliged...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 546 pages
...no Hebrew types. There are, however, some few Hebrew and Arabic characters introduced ; but they are extremely rude, and evidently cut in wood. They are the first of the sort used in England. It was a circumstance favourable at least to English literature, that the illiteracy of the times obliged...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 544 pages
...1522, his " Oratio de Laudibus & Utilitate trium Linguarum Arabicae, Chaklaicae, & Hebraica ;" but he was' obliged to omit his whole third part, because the printer, who was Wynkyn de Worde, had no Hebrew types. There are, however, some few Hebrew and Arabic characters...
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An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography: To which is Prefixed ..., Volume 1

Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bibliographical literature - 1814 - 464 pages
...laudibus et utilitate trium Unguarum, Arabicce, Chaldaicce, et Hebraicce" &c. 4to. The printer was Wynkyn de Worde ; and the author complains that he was obliged...Hebrew types. Some few Hebrew and Arabic characters are, however, introduced ; but they are extremely rude, and evidently cut in wood ; they are the first...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 30

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 520 pages
...idiomatibus Hebraicis quae in utroque Testamento inveniuntur," 1524, 4to. The printer was Wynken tie Worde ; and the author complains, that he was obliged...extremely rude, and evidently cut in wood. They are the (irst of the sort used in England. 2. " Koster Codicis," &c. the same mentioned by Bale and Pits, with...
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A Dictionary of Printers and Printing: With the Progress of Literature ...

Charles Henry Timperley - Booksellers and bookselling - 1839 - 1266 pages
...Cotton. Dr. Robert Wakefield, chaplain to king Henry VIII. published his Oratio de Laudibut, Sfe. ; but he was obliged to omit his whole third part, because the printer, (VVynkyn de Worde) had no Hebrew types. There are, however, some few Hebrew and Arabic characters introduced...
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The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh ..., Volume 2

Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1840 - 600 pages
...slrabictt, Chaldaictr, et Hebraica, &c. 4lo. The printer was Wynkyn de Wordc; and the authorcomplains, that he was obliged to omit his whole third part,...and evidently cut in wood. They are the first of the tort used in England. This learned orientalist was instrumental in preserving, at the dissolution of...
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