Gutenberg and the Strasbourg documents of 1439 : an interpretation
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Type of record: Book
Title: Gutenberg and the Strasbourg documents of 1439 : an interpretation
Classmark: BC Bibliography 3/FUH
Creator(s): Fuhrmann, Otto W
Additional creator(s): Laborde, Léon marquis de (1807-1869) (Other); Kredel, Fritz (1900-1973) (Other)
Related people: Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468; Laborde, Léon; Kredel, Fritz
Publisher: Press of the Woolly Whale
Publication city: New York
Date(s): 1940
Language: English
Size and medium: x p., [1] l., 260 p., [1] l. incl. illus., facsims
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/311413
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991005858599705181
Description
Illustrated lining-papers.
Gutenberg's seal on t.-p.
Initials.
"The facsimiles 1 to 13 [p. 147-151] and the watermarks [p. 153] have been reproduced... from the lithographic tracings in Count Léon de Laborde's book Débuts de l'imprimerie à Strasbourg, Paris, 1840. Facsimile 14 [p. 152] has been taken from a pamphlet entitled Gutenberg, lithographed by students of the Strasbourg Industrial school, 1840 (from the copy in the library of the Grolier club, New York) All are shown in the exact size of the originals, preserved by the tracings."--Author's note, p. [146].
"Published in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the invention of printing from movable types. The body matter is hand set in Bruce Rogers' 14-point centaur... Only 600 copies have been printed."
Bibliography: p. [237]-253.
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