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The lost Gutenberg /

Davis, Margaret Leslie,

The lost Gutenberg / Margaret Leslie Davis. - vii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"The astounding story of one book's five hundred year odyssey" -- cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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."--

9781760529611 (pbk.) 1760529613 (pbk.)


Doheny, Estelle, 1875-1958.


Gutenberg Bible.
Rare books.
Books--Provenance.
Book collectors.
Book collectors--Biography.

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