Editio princeps : a history of the Gutenberg Bible /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishers,
[2017]
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| Series: | Harvey Miller studies in the history of culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Part one. Editio princeps. Europe's first printer
- The work of the books
- A book without history
- Part two. A history of the Gutenberg Bible. The first fruits of the eighteenth century
- The long harvest of the nineteenth century
- The last gleanings of the twentieth century
- Epilogue : fertile ground for the twenty-first century
- Part three. A census of Gutenberg Bibles. Surviving copies (including fragments)
- Additional recorded survivals (present locations unknown)
- Notional copies (not otherwise recorded)
- Accessory fragments (not from completed Bibles)
- Doubtful copies and 'ghosts.'