The ink was thus applied in a more even manner, and with a considerable decrease of labour.

With the Stanhope Press, printing was as far advanced as it could possibly be by means of hand labour.

About 250 impressions could be taken off, on one side, in an hour.
But this, after all, was a very small result.

When books could be produced so slowly, there could be no popular literature.

Books were still articles for the few, instead of for the many.