Gutenberg Bible Published

1455

Fust and his son-in-law Peter Schoffer, having sued Gutenberg for his debts and seized the press, began selling the first printed Bibles at the Frankfurt book fair. A cardinal wrote to the pope praising the clarity of the type. Nobody yet quite understood that the manuscript age was finishing. Forty-nine copies survive today, and the clarity of their Gothic textura typeface established a standard printers pursued for generations.