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The Gutenberg Yearbook is the central scientific publication of international Gutenberg research. In approximately 360 pages, it features around 30 scholarly contributions in various languages. The main focus of the Gutenberg Yearbook is the scientific exploration of the life and work of Johannes Gutenberg through relevant contemporary documents and surviving incunabula. Additionally, the yearbook covers a wide range of topics: the history of printing from its beginnings to the present, the history of paper, library history, the history of the book trade and publishing, the history of writing, modern typesetting and printing processes, developments in typography and new media, book illustration, bookbinding, newspaper and press affairs, and literary reports on printing and bookbinding. Despite its scholarly nature, the book is also enjoyable and rewarding for the interested layperson. Contents include: Rainer Moritz, What is a Beautiful Bookstore? Experience-based Notes; Gerhardt Powitz, The Tabula rubricarum of the Gutenberg Bible; Eric White, A Forgotten Gutenberg Bible from the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos; Tobias Daniels, The Pazzi Conspiracy, Printing, and Germany: On Political Propaganda in the Renaissance; Philipp Mettauer, "The Book is a Weapon, a Good Book a Won Battle": The NS Collection of the Archive of the Main Association of Austrian Booksellers.
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Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2012, Stephan Füssel
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- Released
- 2012
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- Title
- Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2012
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Stephan Füssel
- Publisher
- Harrassowitz
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 311
- ISBN10
- 3447066504
- ISBN13
- 9783447066501
- Series
- Description
- The Gutenberg Yearbook is the central scientific publication of international Gutenberg research. In approximately 360 pages, it features around 30 scholarly contributions in various languages. The main focus of the Gutenberg Yearbook is the scientific exploration of the life and work of Johannes Gutenberg through relevant contemporary documents and surviving incunabula. Additionally, the yearbook covers a wide range of topics: the history of printing from its beginnings to the present, the history of paper, library history, the history of the book trade and publishing, the history of writing, modern typesetting and printing processes, developments in typography and new media, book illustration, bookbinding, newspaper and press affairs, and literary reports on printing and bookbinding. Despite its scholarly nature, the book is also enjoyable and rewarding for the interested layperson. Contents include: Rainer Moritz, What is a Beautiful Bookstore? Experience-based Notes; Gerhardt Powitz, The Tabula rubricarum of the Gutenberg Bible; Eric White, A Forgotten Gutenberg Bible from the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos; Tobias Daniels, The Pazzi Conspiracy, Printing, and Germany: On Political Propaganda in the Renaissance; Philipp Mettauer, "The Book is a Weapon, a Good Book a Won Battle": The NS Collection of the Archive of the Main Association of Austrian Booksellers.