Word: gutenberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unusual sales: Mrs. McCormick's diamond necklace and breastplate-$15,000; 24 leaves from the Gutenberg Bible- $5,100; a first edition of Gray's Elegy- $3,500; a second edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems-$3,400; a complete set of Declaration of Independence signers- $18,989; an Ispahan palace carpet-$13,000 a glazed terra cotta altarpiece from the workshop of Delia Robbia-$7,600; a two-handled Queen Anne silver cup and cover - $1,550; a 16th Century Tournai tapestry...
...shape and style of letters started as a child when he decorated his Sunday School room with texts redrawn from specimen letters in an old type book and cut out of fancy wallpaper. As bookkeeper, clerk, unsuccessful publisher, ad vertising artist, he never lost interest in letters. From Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers, other famed printers and designers have built great reputations on the strength of two or three original alphabets. In the centre of the Goudy exhibition last week a streamer list hung from a column. It started with Camelot, 1896, ended with Goudy Boldface, 1932. Above was a short...
Incunabula are literally "cradle-books," published in the infancy of printing. First and most famed of Incunabula are the Gutenberg Bibles, printed in and after 1456. A Gutenberg Bible is in Dr. Vollbehr's collection; there are 3,000 other items, including the first cookbook, the first book on music, the first on surgery, etc.. etc. Also, there is a book bound in the skin of a Spanish Jew persecuted for religious heresy, and many another curio...
...then valued them-and so did other experts-at $3,000,000. He sold 400 duplicates to the late Henry E. Huntington for $1,250,000. The last Gutenberg Bible sold (by Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach to Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness) brought the thumping price...
...Passed a bill to authorize expenditure of $1,500,000 for the Vollbehr collection of incunabula, including a famed Gutenberg Bible...