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The lost Gutenberg / Margaret Leslie Davis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Crows Nest, New South Wales : Allen & Unwin, 2019Description: vii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781760529611 (pbk.)
  • 1760529613 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: "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."-- Back cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction (NEST) Non-Fiction (NEST) 090 DAV Available T00812549
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A gripping exploration of the life of the world's oldest and most famous printed book.

"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."-- Back cover.

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