The Gutenberg Bible is one of the rarefied rule book in the world . Only49 copiesof the original 180 Word are thought to survive today , and not all of those are complete school text . Since you probably ca n’t get your helping hand on one of the originals , Taschenis offering the next best matter . The publisher is releasing a autotype of the historic text as it appeared when it was first printed in the fifteenth one C .
The printing of the Gutenberg Bible in 1454 was basal — not because of the record ’s content , but because of the path the book itself was made . It marked the first time a major westerly publishing was produce using movable metal eccentric . Prior to that , every book publish in Europe was transcribed by hand .
The reprint of the Gutenberg Bible from Taschen is model after the Göttingen Library variation , one of the few copies of the book that remains fully intact . Like the original , the 1282 pages of the Taschen version are publish in Latin . The text comes with a companion book outlining the Gutenberg Bible ’s wallop on the history of publishing .
" Not only did Gutenberg ’s innovation of mechanically skillful transferrable type significantly speed up production without sacrifice quality , " Taschen ’s product verbal description explains , " it irreversibly enriched public cognition , open up mass communication and allowing people to access theme and participate in discussions like never before . "
While there are other facsimile machine of the Gutenberg Bible out there , they ’re not common , and they can costhundreds — if notthousands — of dollar bill . At $ 150 , Taschen ’s is a bargain .
The book is available for pre - order now from Taschen’swebsiteandAmazon , and will transport in July .
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