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Author / Creator:Füssel, Stephan, author.
Imprint:London : Haus Publishing, 2019.
Description:189 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 20 cm.
Language:English
Series:Life and times
Life & times (London, England)
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12026940
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Other authors / contributors:Lewis, Peter, 1958- translator.
ISBN:1912208679
9781912208678
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Historical background: the woodcut and the manuscript
  • Metal type printing in Korea 1377
  • Mainz - Strasbourg - Mainz
  • Merchant and inventor
  • The new art
  • The Gutenberg Bible (B 41) of 1454
  • Fust and Gutenberg
  • A key witness: Enea Silvio Piccolomini
  • The Burgos Bible
  • The Göttingen Model Book
  • Large print runs in DK type
  • Schoolbooks
  • The 36-line Bible
  • The Catholicon
  • Gutenberg's final years
  • The impact of Gutenberg's work
  • The first successors: Johannes Fust and Peter Schöffer
  • The spread of book printing
  • The book in Britain
  • Humanism and printing
  • Book printing and the Reformation
  • Pamphlets
  • Newe Zeytungen
  • A retrospective on the era of Gutenberg
  • Notes
  • Testimonies
  • Surviving Gutenberg Bibles
  • List of digital editions of the Gutenberg Bible available on the internet
  • Notable printers
  • The spread of Gutenberg's technology
  • Notable early printing sites
  • Key inventions in printing
  • Bibliography
  • Index of names
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Picture credits