Show THE FIRST PRINTED BOOK it is 13 a re inu kable kabie and most interest interesting iLg fact lat lle ile lie he very first use to which the discovery ol 01 pain ting ling was applied ws was w s the production c it the ae holy bible this was liet led li it a BL lientz mentz between the year 1450 an 14 0 gutten Gutter berg Lerg was the inventor 0 tle the art and faust a goldsmith furnished the rif rie ce kry krs sary try funds had it been a single page pae cr or even veil an sheet which was then produced there night might have been les less to have lave noticed it but there was something in the whole character of the affair which it not unprecedented rendered it singular in m the usual current ol 01 human events this thib bible bibie was in two folio volumes lurnes vo which have been leen justly praised for the strength and ind beauty of the paper the exactness of the register and the lustre of the ink inc the work contained lifts pages and being the first ever printed of course in dinv inv ived a long period of time and an immens etia mount ot mental manual and mechanic labor and yet for a ion lon long iong r time tune after it had I 1 a ninis finis finished hedi and offered offered for sale not a gie gle human being save the artists them e ea knew how it had been accomplished of U first printed bible eighteen copies are noi known ta be in existence existe nee nce four of which ic printed on vellum two of these are in england one being belog in in the ane greenville collect n one in the royal library of berlin anu ale aie in the thee royal library of paris pans of the arteen irleen remaining copies ten are arc in in engro 1 there being a copy in the libraries of ox CIA d edin and london and seven beven ia in lie ie collections of different noblemen the v iuni euni i uni copy fats been sold as high as th as if to nark gnarl narl the noblest purpose to which A art would e ever ver be appi appl applied Hed the arst first book jd d with metal was the L e A f t ung of hin edward I 1 coined at ber berv I 1 was bockh bock h for the ant bi museum L L lie lir sale ot 0 dr Nell neli gan s 2 coins clans in lom lortt i it wad was opposed to be the tle only one i pi price ice wa 17 i as ad T is 13 a mode of presenting thit that th it gives value tj t iny any thin thing |