DID YOU KNOW? In the 1450's, Johann Gutenberg created the first
mass-produced Bible on his new printing press. It is claimed that only
49 complete copies survive today in 2017. At the time, the printing
press was an innovation that gave birth to mass media communications,
allowing a multitude of copies to be made more quickly, and with greater
ease, than copying by hand. This particular page in my collection is
from the famous Cooper Square Facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible (1
961).
It contains the text and illustrations to Genesis chapter 1: "In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth". They utilized a
five-color, sheet-fed gravure (intaglio) printing process, printed on
one hundred percent cotton rag paper. Each color sheet was fed through
the intaglio press seven separate times to match the original work of
Gutenberg. God Bless You -- Today and Every Day. Love, Pop-pop from
Wonders of the Bible.
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