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The Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz has been awarded since 1968 for outstanding artistic, technical and scientific achievements in the field of printing. The award was initially awarded every three years, since 1994 then in annual change with the Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig , which also ...
The Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig (German: Gutenberg-Preis der Stadt Leipzig) is an award in memory of Johannes Gutenberg. Since 1959, the prize honor personalities or institutions that make outstanding contributions to the promotion of the art of books. Awarded people and Institutions have set standards with their artistic, technical ...
Retiring in 1970 he continued to work as a book designer and teacher, and designed three Hebrew typefaces for the IBM Selectric typewriter II typeball (Shalom, Hadar, Aviv). [5] Henri Friedlaender received the Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz in 1971.
German Book Prize – for the best German language novel of the year; Leipzig Book Fair Prize – in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and translation; Ingeborg Bachmann Prize; Aspekte-Literaturpreis (Aspekte Literature Prize) – for the best debut novel written in German; Kleist Prize – first awarded in 1912
Gutenberg Bible in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The Gutenberg Bible is an edition of the Vulgate, a Latin translation of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Greek New Testament by St Jerome. The text contains emendations from the Parisian Bible tradition, and further divergences. [5]
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
Profiles in Courage is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States senators.The book, authored by John F. Kennedy with Ted Sorensen as a ghostwriter, profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity as a result.
In 2004 he was awarded the Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz by the International Gutenberg Society . In 2005, he received an award for distinguished achievement from the American Printing History Association. [11] Prof. Darnton with prof. Hans Tuzzi at Festivaletteratura of Mantua, September 8, 2018.