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A single folio leaf (389 x 273 mm.), containing Acts of Apostles VII:35–VIII:37 (leaf 289 of Vol. 2), double column, 42 lines per column, rubricated in red and blue (headlines in alternating red and blue lombard letters, chapter initial in red with numerals alternating in red and blue, red capital strokes). [Mainz: Printed by Johann Gutenberg & Johann Fust, 1455]. [Mounted in]: A Noble Fragment: being a Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, with a Bibliographical Essay by A. Edward Newton. Title printed in red & black & two unnumbered leaves of text. Folio, orig. dark blue morocco by Stikeman & Co., covers panelled in blind, upper cover & spine lettered in gilt. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921.A single paper leaf from the first substantial book printed with movable type in the western world, now known simply as the Gutenberg Bible or the 42-line Bible. It is the first and, judging it by the quality of its design and materials, still the greatest of all printed books. It consists of 641 leaves, and was printed in an edition of probably 35 copies on vellum and 150 on paper, of which 48 complete or nearly complete copies are extant, 12 on vellum and 36 on paper. It initiated the ability to disseminate and store knowledge and literature as never before, by a method still unsurpassed. The development of typographical printing in Europe during the second half of the 15th century changed the character of western civilization. "It has been claimed that the craft of letterpress printing is the medium which turned the darkness of the middle ages into light; which secured to posterity the intellectual achievements of the past; and which furnished to civilization a means of recording all future progress."–Encycl. Brit. The Noble Fragment originated with an imperfect copy of the Gutenberg Bible which was divided by Gabriel Wells, a New York book dealer, and dispersed as single leaves or larger fragments, the individual leaves mostly accompanied by A. Edward Newton’s essay, as here. The copy had previously formed part of the collection of Maria von Sulzbach (1721–1794), wife of Carl Theodore, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate and subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria; thence the Hofbibliothek at Mannheim; the Royal Library at Munich (sold as a duplicate in 1832); and Robert Curzon, Baron Zouche (1810–1873) and his descendants. It was sold at auction in 1920 (Sotheby’s, 9th Nov., lot 70) to Joseph Sabin, who in turn sold it to Wells. Fine copy. ? Dibner, Heralds of Science, 171–"No single invention has so advanced the status of man as has the process of printing from movable type." Printing & the Mind of Man 1. Codice inventario libreria