1940, a year of anniversaries
Subtitle: Johann Gutenberg, 1440, Juan Pablos, 1540, Stephen Daye, 1640
By: with a note by Will Ransom and a chronology of celebrations by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt
Contributors: Cellar Press; University Press (Cambridge, Mass.); University Press Pamphlet Collection (Houghton Library); Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut, 1903-1992
Publisher: Lewis Finch at the Cellar Press
Published: 1939
Place of publication: Bloomfield, Conn
Language: eng
Subjects: Printing; History; Celebrations of invention
Other titles: Nineteen forty, a year of anniversaries; Johann Gutenberg, 1440, Juan Pablos, 1540, Stephen Daye, 1640
Notes: "In commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the invention of printing from movable types by Johann Gutenberg, six hundred copies of this keepsake have been set in hand in Aldine Bembo by Lewis Finch at the Cellar Press and printed on Linweave papers for the friends of the Storrs and Bement Company."

"1940 will be observed as the 500th anniversary of printing from movable type."

Four facsimile specimens of early printing are mounted on three pages.