Johann Gutenberg and His Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Johann Gutenberg and His Bible write by Janet Ing. This book was released on 1988. Johann Gutenberg and His Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The only work in English to survey Gutenberg scholarship from the fifteenth century to the mid-1980s. It includes a detailed discussion of the 42-line Bible of 1455. Designed by Abe Lerner, and set and printed in Monotype Van Dijck by Michael & Winifred Bixler.
The Lost Gutenberg
The Lost Gutenberg - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Gutenberg write by Margaret Leslie Davis. This book was released on 2019-03-19. The Lost Gutenberg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A lively tale of historical innovation, the thrill of the bibliophile’s hunt, greed and betrayal.” – The New York Times Book Review "An addictive and engaging look at the ‘competitive, catty and slightly angst-ridden’ heart of the world of book collecting.” - The Houston Chronicle The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on the lives of the fanatical few who were lucky enough to own it. For rare-book collectors, an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible--of which there are fewer than 50 in existence--represents the ultimate prize. Here, Margaret Leslie Davis recounts five centuries in the life of one copy, from its creation by Johannes Gutenberg, through the hands of monks, an earl, the Worcestershire sauce king, and a nuclear physicist to its ultimate resting place, in a steel vault in Tokyo. Estelle Doheny, the first woman collector to add the book to her library and its last private owner, tipped the Bible onto a trajectory that forever changed our understanding of the first mechanically printed book. The Lost Gutenberg draws readers into this incredible saga, immersing them in the lust for beauty, prestige, and knowledge that this rarest of books sparked in its owners. Exploring books as objects of obsession across centuries, this is a must-read for history buffs, book collectors, seekers of hidden treasures, and anyone who has ever craved a remarkable book--and its untold stories.
Justification of Johann Gutenberg
Justification of Johann Gutenberg - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Justification of Johann Gutenberg write by Blake Morrison. This book was released on 2010-05-14. Justification of Johann Gutenberg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Around 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose heretical invention was to change history. Some sixty years later he died — robbed of his business, his printing presses, and, so he thought, his immortality. In his dazzling first novel, Morrison gives us Gutenberg’s “testament” — his justification, dictated to one of the young scribes his invention will soon put out of work. Thus Morrison conjures up the haunting figure of Gutenberg himself: a man who gambled everything — money, honour, friendship and a woman’s love — on the greatest invention of the last millennium.
EDITIO PRINCEPS.
EDITIO PRINCEPS. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook EDITIO PRINCEPS. write by Eric Marshall White. This book was released on 2017. EDITIO PRINCEPS. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Gutenberg Bible is widely recognized as Europe's first printed book, a book that forever changed the world. However, despite its initial impact, fame was fleeting: for the better part of three centuries the Bible was virtually forgotten; only after two centuries of tenacious and contentious scholarship did it attain its iconic status as a monument of human invention. Editio princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible is the first book to tell the whole story of Europe's first printed edition, describing its creation at Mainz circa 1455, its impact on fifteenth-century life and religion, its fall into oblivion during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and its rediscovery and rise to worldwide fame during the centuries thereafter. This comprehensive study examines the forty-nine surviving Gutenberg Bibles, and fragments of at least fourteen others, in the chronological order in which they came to light. Combining close analysis of material clues within the Bibles themselves with fresh documentary discoveries, the book reconstructs the history of each copy in unprecedented depth, from its earliest known context through every change of ownership up to the present day. Along the way it introduces the colorful cast of proud possessors, crafty booksellers, observant travelers, and scholarly librarians who shaped our understanding of Europe's first printed book. Bringing the 'biographies' of all the Gutenberg Bibles together for the first time, this richly illustrated study contextualizes both the historic cultural impact of the editio princeps and its transformation into a world treasure.
Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Johannes Gutenberg write by Stephen Feinstein. This book was released on 2008. Johannes Gutenberg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the life and career of Johannes Gutenberg, including the history of written text before his invention of the movable type press, and the advancements in printing made after his death.
