The 15th-century German printer was responsible for an influential edition of the Bible.

Gutenberg's first large-scale printing — a set of 200 illustrated Latin Bibles — rolled off the presses in 1455. Every copy had been pre-sold before he'd even set the last page. Word spread ...

In Gothic-style text it reads "A Leaf of The Gutenberg Bible (1450 - 1455)." Yes ... one humankind's most important inventions: the printing press. "What we're trying to learn is the elemental ...

However, in November of 1455, before the Bible was actually sold ... acquired the entire print shop — including the printing press — in the court settlement, and ousted Gutenberg into the ...

the first copies of which appeared in 1455, followed by an illustrated Psalm book two years later. “In spite of Gutenberg’s efforts to keep his technique a secret, the printing press spread ...

Aldus Manutius is not a household name in the same way that his predecessor by a few decades, the printing-press visionary Johannes Gutenberg, is. Yet by all accounts Manutius (1455-1515 ...

The coming of the Printing Press was, as we all know ... whose famous printed Bible appeared in 1455. Gutenberg's Bible symbolises the great transformation with which we are concerned today.

Between about 1455 and the end of 1500 ... Gutenberg as locked in a battle with an evil monk, who fears the printing press will loosen the church’s power over the masses. In reality, some ...