ATH SF.AIKII KOI? HAKF B 1 lU.F. LONDON'. .Inly ‘2O. After making several air trips ovoi various parts of Knrope. Mr Fdward tloldston. a bookseller. *>l 20. Museumstreet. Bloomsbury. W.C.. has traced mu! bought ill Vienna what he describes as a line atul perfect copy of the Gutonliere liihle. the’ lirst hook o' ll printed in movable type. 11 avius heard that the hook existed he set out by air about ten days non lor t’oloone. lie was unable to tind it there, so lie went to Austrit. and at last traced it to a private house m Vienna. He flew hark to London lor some money, which he took hat k to Vienna to purchase the book. Ihe price paid for it ran into live tutures. Mr Goldston will arrive in London with the book on Monday. Tt is in two volumes quarto. . , Gutenberg printed his first test in 1455 and the second a year later.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1925, Page 3
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