Show The recent sub of a Mazarin Bible ocallcd for 1000 In a London auction oom Is the record price for a Bible The book Is a folio pf Gil leaves and Is printed in blackletter in double columns col-umns without paging or title page It is supposed to be the first book printed from movable type and should probably be called the Gutenberg Bible but Is called the Mazarin because a opy was discovered in he I library of he Cardinal There is no date on the work but it is generally supposed to have been issued before the year M5G For strength and beauty of paper says a writer in describing it which hears four water marks throughout uslre of the ink very heavy black Its It-s with Illuminated largo capitals Cor he beginning of books and less ornate red capitals for chapter beginnings for pages covered with scrollwork in gold and exact uniformity of impres lon It has never been equaled by any other work It seems marvelous he onlimics In looking at the pages of hose splendid volumes that lie In entor of printing should by a single ffort have exhibited the perfection of bin art1 An enthusiastic cataloguer described It once as the most important im-portant and distinguished article in the whole annals of typography a trcas jre which would exalt the humblest and stamp with a due character of dig ilty the proudest collection In the vorld |