THE LOST GUTENBERG: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
by Margaret Leslie Davis
Allen & Unwin, Sydney
Paperback: 245 pages
Price: AUD$29.99
Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel
A key invention of Western civilisation was the printing press. Often considered to be a critical factor in the spread of the Protestant Reformation, the first printed books in Europe were editions of the Vulgate Bible in Latin, printed by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany, in 1…
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