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| c. 1425 |
| | Packs of tarot playing cards are among the most popular products of Europe's first printing presses | |
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| c. 1455 |
| | Master ES becomes the first artist to produce engravings | |
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| 1456 |
| | A copy of Europe's first book printed from movable type, the Gutenberg Bible, is completed in Mainz | |
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| c. 1461 |
| | Albrecht Pfister publishes the first book with printed illustrations - Der Ackermann aus Böhmen ('The farmer of Bohemia') | |
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| 1470 |
| | The first Italian printing press is set up in Venice, which soon rivals Germany for the quality of its printing | |
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| 1493 |
| | The Nuremberg Chronicle integrates text and pictures in an ambitious history of the world | |
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| c. 1495 |
| | Dürer, the first great artist to tackle the complexities of printing, becomes a master of woodcut and engraving | |
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| c. 1500 |
| | The first etchings are printed in Augsburg, from iron plates | |
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| 1530 |
| | German botanist Otto Brunfels publishes Living images of plants, the first serious work of natural history with printed illustrations | |
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| 1560 |
| | A book to teach good handwriting is published by Gianfrancesco Cresci, with examples engraved on copper plates | |
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