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The Mainz diary, 1437-1440 : in which new light is shed upon the cradle days of the art and mystery of printing
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- Creator
- translated from the German by Albert Bachaus ; edited and with a note by Arthur W. Rushmore ; with a critical foreword by Hermann Püterschein
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- English
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- Madison, N.J. : Golden Hind Press, 1940
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- xiv, 11 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile ; 26 cm
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- ocm04720250, ocm04720250
- "Issued on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the invention of printing from moveable type."
- "Of the first edition ... 250 copies have been bound in boards for the friends of the editor, and the balance of the sheets bound in with the text of the Christmas issue of Print"--Page [iii].
- Chapter one tells how we happened to be in Wiesbaden in '31 and the way the diary came into our possession -- Chapter two deals with the diaries and casts a new and surprising light on the birth of a great invention