It tells us emphatically that "this right worthy art was invented first of all in Germany, at Mainz, on the Rhine"; and again, that "the first inventor of printing was a Burgher at Mainz named Junker Johann 'Gudenburch'"; but between these two unqualified statements is sandwiched a reference to a prefiguration which took shape in Holland in Donatuses, printed there before the Mainz presses were at work, and much less masterly and subtle than the books which they produced.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
By the way, this writer, like ourselves, reads in this juvenile adventure a prefiguration of Pope's satirical destiny.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
This image is in remarkable accordance with the origin of the race, and with the prefiguration of Christ in Adam.
"Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom"
T. W. Allies