2-613-167 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

John Gutenberg Showing Part of the First Printed Book to Faust, c1910. Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (c1398-1468) was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe. Gutenberg’s work with mechanical movable type printing initiated a mass communication revolution in Renaissance Europe. Here we see Gutenberg with his business partner Johann Fust or Faust (c1400-1466). From a 'Pictorial Record of Remarkable Events in The History of the World', published by James Sangster and Co., c1910.