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...acter, Bedlam Galore, for Two or More, "She" and "He" quarreled, and quarreled some more, while a civil war went on outside and the roof and walls caved in to illustrate lonesco's philosophy that life is absurd. Electrically powered kinetic sculpture by Len Lye and Nicolas Schoeffer moved, twisted, roared and thumped at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. All this and more galore was part of the two-week Buffalo Festival of the Arts Today, perhaps the most all-encompassing, hip, with-it, avant-garde presentation in the U.S. to date...
...Nurnberg Chronicle." Gutenberg's Bible though not dated, is fairly well established as being printed in about 1450. "Catholica" is an encyclopedic dictionary printed in 1460, probably by Gutenberg. The "Book of Ruth" which is on display was published at Mainz in 1462 by Peter Fust and John Schoeffer, the former being the man who financed Gutenberg's edition of the Bible. The "Nurnberg Chronicle" is an illustrated universal history printed...
...date of publication, printer's name and so forth, gives a history of the origin of printing. It is this colophon which points to Gutenberg as the printer. The book came from a press believed to have been started by Gutenberg in opposition to the printers Fust and Schoeffer, who got Gutenbergs' original press...
...earliest book known which bears the date of its publication can be seen at the Royal Library at Windsor. It is a copy of the "Psalterieum" printed by Faust and Schoeffer in 1457. The binding is blue velvet with the royal crown and cypher on the sides in solid gold, and embossed gold cordices and loops...
...Among these books are several valumes from the press of Peter Schoeffer, three or four from that of Mentelin at Strasburg, the representatives of those of Ulrich Zell, Arnold Terhoernen and Bartholomaeus de Unket at Cologne, Zainer and Sorg at Augsburg, Creussmer and Koburger at Nuremberg, of Bartolomeo di Cremona, Ratdolf, John of Cologne and Scotus at Venice, of Caxton and Wynkyn de Norde and Pynson and Berthelet in England and of many other famous presses throughout Europe. Especially represented among these early books are those which throw light upon the development of natural science. Such are the editions...
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