Page 16 Advertisements Column 5

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22369, 17 September 1934, Page 16

In Mayence, on the Rhine, still stands the first printing house of the world. It is the " Sehoefferhof," formerly known as the " Hof zum Humbrecht," in which the father of printing, Johannes Gutenberg, first put his invention to practical use. Here he printed his famous Bible of 42 liyes, also known as the " Mazarin Bibre," his first calendars, and the "Poem on the Day of Judgment." Among the few remaining mementoes of Gutenberg in Mayence is the Gutenberg Museum, founded in 1900, which contains the reconstructed workshop of the" inventor, complete with reproductions of the primitive wooden printing blocks and implements used by the pioneer of printing over 500 years ago. Johannes Gutenberg derived his name from the house called " Hof zum Gutenberg" in Mayence, in which he was born in 1398.