The lost Gutenberg: the astounding story of one book's five-hundred-year odyssey

"The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on the lives of the fanatical few who were lucky enough to own it"--

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1. Verfasser: Davis, Margaret Leslie 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [New York] TarcherPerigee [2019]
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Zusammenfassung:"The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on the lives of the fanatical few who were lucky enough to own it"--
"For rare-book collectors, an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible--of which there are fewer than 50 in existence--represents the ultimate prize. Here, Margaret Leslie 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."--from jacket
Beschreibung:vii, 294 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781592408672

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