Gutenberg

STEPHEN FÜSSEL has, since 1992, held the Gutenberg chair of the University of Mainz at the Gutenberg Institute for World Literature and Written Media and is vice-president of the International Gutenberg Society in Mainz.

• Foreword // 1Historical Background: the woodcut and the manuscript // 4Metal type printing in Korea 1377 // 10Mainz - Strasbourg - Mainz // 12Merchant and inventor // 18The new art // 26The Gutenberg Bible ( B 42) of 1454 // 33Fust and Gutenberg // 41A key witness: Enea Silvio Piccolomini // 44The Burgos Bible // 47The Göttingen Model Book // 50Large print runs in DK type // 54Schoolbooks // 61The 36-line Bible // 66The Catholicon // 70Gutenberg's final years // 75The impact of Gutenberg's work // 85The first successors: Johannes Fust and Peter Schöffer // 85The spread of book printing // 92The book in Britain // 102Humanism and printing // 106Book printing and the Reformation // 115Pamphlets // 124Newe Zeytungen // 129A retrospective on the era of Gutenberg // 135Notes // 139Testimonies // 145Surviving Gutenberg Bibles // 154List of digital editions of the Gutenberg Bible available on the internet // 157Notable printers // 161The spread of Gutenberg's technology // 163Notable early printing sites // 164Key inventions in printing // 165Bibliography // 171Index of names // 182About the author // 187Acknowledgements // 188Picture credits // 189

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