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Johann Gutenberg and the amazing printing press / Bruce Koscielniak.
A history of the modern printing industry, including how paper and ink are made, looking particularly at the printing press invented by Gutenberg around 1450 but also at its precursors.
Record details
- ISBN: 0618263519
- Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Stroud Branch | J 686.209 Kos | 31681001439033 | JNONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A history of the modern printing industry, including how paper and ink are made, looking particularly at the printing press invented by Gutenberg around 1450 but also at its precursors. - Baker & Taylor
Offers readers the true story of Johann Gutenberg and his incredible invention that forever changed the way books were printed, enhanced with full-color illustrations and historical overview. 12,500 first printing. - HoughtonIf a book was published 600 years ago, it would have been copied out by hand by a scribe in a monastery and probably would have taken months to produce. But thanks to Johann Gutenberg in the fifteenth century, modern printing was born and nowadays it can take only a few seconds to print a book. Gutenberg invented the printing press as well as a new type of ink and a new way to cast type.
Learn the incredible story of Johann Gutenberg and the history of early printing and publishing.
