In the year 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose heretical invention was to change history. Sixty odd years later he died - bankrupt, robbed of his business, his printing presses, his good name and, so he thought, immortality. Reading between the lines of history, Blake Morrison has woven a stunning novel around the few facts that are known about the life and work of Johann Gensfleisch of Gutenberg, master printer, charmer, conman and visionary - the man who invented 'artifical writing', first printed a Latin ...
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In the year 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose heretical invention was to change history. Sixty odd years later he died - bankrupt, robbed of his business, his printing presses, his good name and, so he thought, immortality. Reading between the lines of history, Blake Morrison has woven a stunning novel around the few facts that are known about the life and work of Johann Gensfleisch of Gutenberg, master printer, charmer, conman and visionary - the man who invented 'artifical writing', first printed a Latin grammar and then the 'Gutenberg' Bible, putting thousands of monks out of work. In a first novel that is dazzling in its artistry and delicacy, and pure enchantment for the reader, Morrison gives us Gutenberg's 'testament'. Gutenberg dictates his justification and apologia - ironically enough - to pretty young scribes, who have the power not only to reject an old man's advances but also to change his words, since with his failing eyesight he can barely read them. Through the words he puts into the mouth of this endearing, maddening, touching creation Morrison conjures up a noisy, colourful, plague-ridden fifteenth-century world in the rival cities of Mainz and Strasbourg, as well as in the wider European world beyond, from the flourishing cities of the Rhine to the lowland plains in the North.
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Very Good. Around 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose invention of moveable metal type was to change the written word for ever and alter the course of history itself. Johann Gutenberg died 60 years later, robbed of his business, his printing presses and, so he thought, of his immortality. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear in good dust wrapper. 2000. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo., 259pp. Beautiful Unread First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (£14.99), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publishers black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed by the author on the title page, "To Lauren, best wishes, Blake Morrison." ISBN: 0701169656 Pages: 272 Fine in fine dust jacket.
