Title: Essai d’annales de la vie de Jean Gutenberg Inventeur de la typographie Par Jér. Jacques Oberlin de l’Institut national de France Bibliothécaire de l’École centrale du Bas-Rhin
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. f. [1], pp. 45. Signatures: [π]A-B8, C6. Blue wrappers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Includes the first printing of a fictitious letter from Gutenberg to a supposed sister, and the second printing of another spurious Gutenberg document. Both items are fabrications by Franz Joseph Bodmann, one-time curator of archives at the University of Mainz, trustingly published by Jeremias Jakob Oberlin. See D. McMurtrie, The Gutenberg Documents. New York, 1941, pp. 225-228.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039115979707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>