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The ministering imps of the Pres were aradited with. så informal origin at a very early stage in he history of printing, According to the absurd old story, which still crops up quisually, Johann Fast, oft Mentz, one of the earliest Germap printers,
was the origins of Dr Faustus in the legend immortalled by Goethe. Fest kept his knowledge of the art of printing scoret;| but when peoplefound him offering books at a price below the usual oest
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OLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA. ▷ SIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, HOJO,
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FREDERICK REICHMANN, Proprietor & Manager, (late Manager of J. Lyons & Co. (Trocadere) lending Caterers in London and of the
TELEPHONE No. 197.
Grand Oriental Hotel, Colombo), TYLIGRAPHIC ACORisa Corca, Hongkong.
Hongkong, December. 1, 1909,
and KAMIYAMADA Collories,"
with miraculous rapidity, they st ones. came to the confusion that such wonders could only be wught by diabolical agency. and to give lepel colour to the suggestion they pointed t the boys whe ran his errands, and who, like their, Buccessors, were liberally backed, and called them his
SOLE AGENTS for KISHIDAKF, 511-duvila. The upshot of the matter was
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that the printer, to save his" lifa,- war obliged to reveal he now process, and so, fof ccpiren. lost is chance of exclusive profit. 1 is not try probable,, however. that, this comical history of Johann Fust had anything to do with the tragical history of Dr. Faustus,
To another of the early printare is sonte- times adjudged the honour of originating TYL. ADDEMIES for above:+WASAKI.the devil." The famous Aldus Manutius, Code:-Á1, ABC 5th Ed., Western, Colco. the founder of the great Venetian printing.
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house, is said to have employed a black. slave who was thought by the ignorant to be an imp; no Aldus issued the following proclamation, which, by the way, is prob
THURSDAY, APRIL 31, 1910.
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Hougkong. January 9, 199,
exposure of the printer's devil.
All who
think he is dot flesh and blood may com
and pinch him "an offer doubtless much apprecinted by the unlucky black
Boogkneg, February 8, 1910.
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But apart from these somewhat mythicalTHE ANNUAL OXFORD and CAM- origins, the name of printer's devil, derived from the blackness engendered by the nature of his excupation, was certainly ia 816 existence at an early period in the history of the Press A seventeenth century writer, Randle Holme, in his "Academy Acmory," gires explanations of a large
OWEN B. WILKS & CO., of Abuse she cras and instruments that
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were then in use in various sits and trades, and his notices of printers' terms are parti. cularly full. He does not forget the attendant imps of the press, for these boys,
F. W. GOLDRING, Orford, H. L. O. GARRETT, Cambridge. Hongkong, April 13, 1910.
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Foote, in his farce of The Author,“. speaks of "printer's prime minister, called adevil?.
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sheets from the tympan of the press, but T. 208, the title is now enjoyed by the errand boys TELEGRAM, WANDEROOB.
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A hundred year ago it seems to have been not uncomme for female "devila “
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son there is a rec of a conversation in the presence of thepetor and Sir Joshua Reynolds, when certain respectable author was spokens having married a "printer's devil."A priater's dovil,
**Why, I thought. Bir cried Sir Jos
a printer's davil waresture with a black face" and in Yes, sir,” replied Johnson; "but I se he had her face washed and put clothes on her,"
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