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The Gutenberg Bible of 1454 (Hardcover)
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The printing press has been called the greatest invention of the
second millennium. Published in Mainz around 1454, the Gutenberg
Bible was the first major Western publication to be printed with
movable metal type, ushering in a whole new age of knowledge
distribution through mass-produced books. Before Gutenberg, woodcut
printing and early forms of movable type printing had been mastered
in Asia, but had yet to reach Europe. Instead, each book had to be
copied by hand in a long, labor-intensive process. Not only did
Gutenberg’s innovation of mechanical movable type significantly
speed up production without sacrificing quality, it irreversibly
enriched public knowledge, pioneering mass communication and
allowing people to access ideas and participate in discussions like
never before. When it comes to radical revolutions in media, the
Gutenberg Bible is up there with the Internet. This facsimile
edition derives from one of the very few surviving complete vellum
Latin originals worldwide; the Göttingen Library edition, one of
the most valuable books in the world, listed in the UNESCO Memory
of the World program. All 1,282 pages of this artistic and
technological masterwork are included, along with a companion book
written by Stephan Füssel, Gutenberg-Chair at Mainz University,
introducing Gutenberg, his transformative influence, and two
important documents of the time: the Göttingen Model Book which
was used to illuminate the Göttingen Library edition and the only
surviving notary document by Ulrich Helmasperger, which records the
history of this unique invention and its product, the Gutenberg
Bible.
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