The Gutenberg Bible has long been a magic term among book ... Of the 200 Gutenberg Bibles printed between 1454 and 1456 the one in the Widener Collection is among the first ten.

What is a Gutenberg Bible? The term refers to each of the two-volume Bibles printed in Gutenberg’s workshop around 1454. Before that, all existing Bibles were copied by hand. The process could ...

"Produced in 1454 or 1455, the few surviving copies of Gutenberg's Bible remain exemplars of the printer's forethought and craftsmanship; the page dimensions, it is believed, were devised by ...