This text is a catalogue of the Rutgers University exhibition looking at books published during the first century of printing. It begins with Gutenberg's famous 42-line Bible, and ends with the lavishly illustrated deluxe editions of the mid-16th century. Also featured are specimens of Golden Age French typograhpy. There are individual photographs of each work, including colour photographs of the hand-coloured herbal woodcuts and illuminations of 15th-century editions of "Josephus" and "Antoninus".
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