The lost Gutenberg / Margaret Leslie Davis
- Bib ID:
- 7896890
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Davis, Margaret Leslie, author
- Description:
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- Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2019
- ©2019
- vii, 294 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781760529611 (paperback)
- Summary:
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For rare-book collectors, an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible represents the ultimate prize. 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.
- Notes:
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- "The astounding story of one book's five hundred year odyssey" -- cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index.
- Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- The lost Gutenberg : the astounding story of one book's five-hundred-year odyssey
- Copyright:
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2019
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