Recounts the story of the German printer credited with the invention of printing with movable type.

A history of the modern printing industry, including how paper and ink are made, looking particularly at the printing press invented by Gutenberg around 1450 bu

Around 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose heretical invention was to change history. Some sixty years later he died — robbed of his business, hi

The only work in English to survey Gutenberg scholarship from the fifteenth century to the mid-1980s. It includes a detailed discussion of the 42-line Bible of

Can one invention really change the world? Before the mid-fifteenth century, books were printed by hand, making them rare and expensive. Reading and learning re