Told in the manner of an old chronicle, this short historical tale opens with a wedding: John Fust, master printer of Mainz, gives his daughter Christine to his partner Peter Schoeffer. Around the celebration and its consequences unfolds the story of Gutenberg himself, his invention, his quarrels over money and credit, and the sack of Mainz by the soldiers of Prince Adolf.
A curious nineteenth-century fiction about the birth of the printed book, for lovers of books and their history. Download the free EPUB.