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because they would have to give up the method of
disputation for that of book-keeping and reasoning, and
a stroke of the pen would have spared much clamor. (111)
Pope’s Dunciad indicts the printed book as the agent of a
primitivistic and Romantic revival. Sheer visual quantity evokes
the magical resonance of the tribal horde. The box office looms
as a return to the echo chamber of bardic incantation.
* In 1683­84 there appeared in London by Joseph
Moxon, Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing . The
editors point out (p. vii) that “it put in writing a knowledge that
was wholly traditional”, and that Moxon’s book “was by forty
years the earliest manual of printing in any language.” Like
Gibbon in his retrospect of Rome, Moxon seems to have been
animated by a sense of print as having reached a terminus. A