Editio princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible, Eric Marshall White's 2017 study from Harvey Miller, is a scholarly history of the Gutenberg Bible as the first printed edition of a full length book in the West, by a specialist rare-book librarian and bibliographer. Its strength is direct professional expertise in the physical surviving copies of the Bible themselves, from a publisher specializing in art historical and bibliographic scholarship. Its limit is that, as with any single-author history, a claim about one specific surviving copy's condition or provenance should be checked against the book's own copy-by-copy census as well.
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Eric Marshall White's Editio princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible, published by Harvey Miller in 2017, the top tier reflecting a scholarly history by a specialist rare-book librarian and bibliographer with direct professional expertise in the physical surviving copies. Its limit is that a claim about one specific surviving copy's condition or provenance should be checked against the book's own copy-by-copy census as well. NotesScholarly history of the Gutenberg Bible as a first printed edition, Harvey Miller, 2017.
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AuthorEric Marshall White
PublisherHarvey Miller
Publication Year2017
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- Textual Witnesses, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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