THE PRINTER'S ART.
"The inception of any great movement, whether material or spiritual, is bound to be interesting, according to its relative importance," says Dr. Rosenbach. "The Gutenberg Bible, leaving aside the question of its artistic merit and the enormous value of its contents, as the first printed book, is
of the greatest possible significance. But it also happens that this wonderful Bible is also one of the finest examples of typography. No book ever printed is more beautiful than this pioneer book of Gutenberg, the first printer, although it was issued about five hundred years ago. It has always seemed an interesting point to me that printing is the only art which sprang
into being full-blown. Later years brought about a uniform appearance of type, but aside from this we have only exceeded the early printers in speed of execution. Enormous value is added to some of these earliest books because they are the last word in the printer's art."
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3231, 26 June 1928, Page 3
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