GUTENBERG BIBLE REALISES £22,000
Received Wednesday, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, March 11. Southerlys sold for £22,000 volume one of the beautifully printed Gutenberg Bible. The West End bookdealer Maggs bought it for an English collector. Johan Gutenberg printed the volume at Mainz in 1455. It was the first book printed in movable metal type and it realised £600 in 1884.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 March 1947, Page 5
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