Noble Fragments - Michael Visontay

One hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history. He broke up the worldÂ’s greatest book, the Gutenberg Bible, and sold it off in individual pages. This is the story of an Australian manÂ’s hunt for those fragments and his familyÂ’s debt to an act of literary vandalism..In 1921, WellsÂ’ audacity scandalized the rare-book world. The Gutenberg was the first substantial book in Europe to have been printed on a printing press. It represented the democratization... Zobrazit více