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BIBLE, in Latin. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, 1455].
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BIBLE, in Latin. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, 1455].
Royal 2o (390 x 285 mm). Single leaf: containing Numbers 21 (end): 23 (opening). 42 lines, double column. Type: 1:146(138)G. Two Lombard initials (one flourished), headings, and chapter numbers supplied in blue and red, capital strokes in red. (Some pale matburn, two small marginal adhesions.)
A leaf from one of the paper copies of the first book printed with moveable type, probably taken from the Sulzbach-Mannheim-Munich copy acquired by Gabriel Wells and dispersed by him in single leaves, many, but not all, bound with an essay ("A Noble Fragment") by A. E. Newton. Goff B-526; H *3031; GW 4201; BMC I, 17 (IC.55); P. Needham, "The Paper Supply of the Gutenberg Bible," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 79, no. 3, 1985: P18.
Royal 2o (390 x 285 mm). Single leaf: containing Numbers 21 (end): 23 (opening). 42 lines, double column. Type: 1:146(138)G. Two Lombard initials (one flourished), headings, and chapter numbers supplied in blue and red, capital strokes in red. (Some pale matburn, two small marginal adhesions.)
A leaf from one of the paper copies of the first book printed with moveable type, probably taken from the Sulzbach-Mannheim-Munich copy acquired by Gabriel Wells and dispersed by him in single leaves, many, but not all, bound with an essay ("A Noble Fragment") by A. E. Newton. Goff B-526; H *3031; GW 4201; BMC I, 17 (IC.55); P. Needham, "The Paper Supply of the Gutenberg Bible," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 79, no. 3, 1985: P18.