Gutenberg and the Strasbourg documents of 1439 : an interpretation / by Otto W. Fuhrmann ; to which has been appended the text of the documents in the original Alsatian, the French of Laborde, and modern German and English translations ; sketches by Fritz Kredel.

Gutenberg and the Strasbourg documents of 1439 : an interpretation / by Otto W. Fuhrmann ; to which has been appended the text of the documents in the original Alsatian, the French of Laborde, and modern German and English translations ; sketches by Fritz Kredel.

New York : Press of the Woolly Whale, 1940.

x, 260 p. : ill., facsims. ; 26 cm

"The facsimiles 1 to 13 [p. 147-151] and the watermarks [p. 153] have been reproduced ... from the lithographic tracings in Count Léon de Laborde's book, Débuts de l'imprimerie à Strasbourg, Paris, 1840. Facsimile 14 [p. 152] has been taken from a pamphlet entitled Gutenberg, lithographed by students of the Strasbourg Industrial School, 1840 (from the copy in the library of the Grolier club, New York). All are shown in the exact size of the originals, preserved by the tracings."--Author's note, p. [146]

"This volume, commenced in the Spring of 1939, is published in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the invention of printing from movable types."

Only 660 copies have been printed.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 239-253.

United States -- New York (State) -- New York.

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