The Gutenberg Fiction

By Jan Hendrik Hessels

Antiqu Libri - The Archaeology of the Book - ATB-1303 --In this volume Jan Hendrik Hessels takes an in-depth examination of the documents that are used to confirm that Gutenberg invented printing with movable type. Hessels maintains that the proof for printing originating at Mainz is tenuous and that Gutenberg was the inventor of printing originated with a rumor. Hessels was also the translator of Van der Linde's volume "The Haarlem legend of the invention of printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster"

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 130084065X
• ISBN13: 9781300840657
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"