Thursday, February 8, 2024

Gutenberg's bible is the best book ever published. Why?



the most precious masterpiece of the earliest Christian art of printing, as all book-lovers seem to agree, is Gutenberg's Bible in Latin. 

here's the consensus:

the best of the forty-five specimens of Gutenberg Bibles still remaining in existence (so most connoisseurs of early printing likewise agree) are 12 printed on vellum. 

of this famous edition there are only 3 perfect specimens of the complete scriptures. 

they exhibit: 

1- superb typographic legibility and texture, 

2- novel, generous margins, 

3- unsurpassed presswork.