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Bibles. The ordinary Gutenberg Bible, of which 41 are known to be in existence, has 641 pages. (This was the first issue of the Bible printed with movable type, 1450, 1455.) Gabriel Wells, a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, bookdealer, recently sold piecemeal an imperfect copy of 593 pages. Where whole books or chapters were intact, they were sold as units. The splitting up of the book makes it possible for many museums and libraries to have pages of this famous Bible, where it would be impossible to secure whole copies. Those which have benefited under this scheme are: Toledo Museum...
...request of the Public Library of Philadelphia, which has undertaken the task of compiling a list of all the incunabula in the United States, and the places where they may be found. This list is to figure in the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Gutenberg of Maing, the inventor of printing
...First Consul. Another binding is stamped with the arms of the Dauphin. Several books contain illustrations by Holbein, and there is a fine set of engravings of the Dance of Death. There are a number of the Aldine edition dating from 1521 and onward. A book printed by Gutenberg in 1460, and one by Faust in 1462, are both older than any book the Library has hitherto contained. Another book has the date 1489, and there is a very rare edition of Plautus, 1578. The collection contains autographs of Samuel Johnson, John Milton, Racine, Drummond, T. N. Taifourd...