Gutenberg's apprentice
Subtitle: a novel
By: Alix Christie
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper; Harper Perennial
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780062336019; 9780062336026
Subjects: Fiction; Printing; Printers; History
Description: When his foster father, a wealthy merchant and bookseller, finances Johann Gutenberg and his printing press, Peter Schoeffer is ordered to become Gutenberg's apprentice and begins his education in the "darkest art" as they print copies of the Holy Bible, drawing the wrath of the Church.