The Lost Gutenberg : : the Astounding Story of one Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
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The Imperial century. Million-dollar bookshelf ; Treasure neglected ; The bibliophile ; The patriot -- The American century. The mighty woman book hunter ; The lost Gutenberg ; The Countess and her Gutenberg ; The nuclear bibliophiles -- The Asian century. The unexpected betrayal ; The virtual Gutenberg -- Epilogue: Final bows.
"For rare-book collectors, an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible--of which there are fewer than 50 in existence--represents the ultimate prize. Here, Margaret Leslie Davis recounts five centuries in the life of one copy, from its creation by Johannes Gutenberg, through the hands of monks, an earl, the Worcestershire sauce king, and a nuclear physicist to its ultimate resting place, in a steel vault in Tokyo. Estelle Doheny, the first woman collector to add the book to her library and its last private owner, tipped the Bible onto a trajectory that forever changed our understanding of the first mechanically printed book."--from jacket
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PUBLISHED
[New York] : TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: vii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781592408672
1592408672
SUBJECTS
Doheny, Estelle, -- 1875-1958.
Gutenberg Bible.
Books -- Provenance.
Book collectors -- Biography.