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Harvey Miller, 2017. 1st. hardcover. New. 12x9x1.

Brepols - Harvey Miller 2017 2017. Hardcover, 465 pages., 14 b/w ill. + 103 colour ill., 225 x 300 mm, English, Latin, German, .FINE! ISBN 9781909400849. The first complete history of all the Gutenberg Bibles. Winner of the 2018 DeLong Book History Prize, awarded by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) 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,… Leer más

2017. 465 pages, 14 black & white and 103 colour illustrations. Bottom corner of back boards slighly bent, otherwise new. Hardback 30 x 23cms. ISBN: 9781909400849.