incarnation 1460 in the noble city of Mainz of the renowned German nation ...". S. H. Steinberg in his book Five Hundred Years of Printing (1955) makes these observations "the type is about a third smaller than that of the 42-line Bible; it is considerably more economical and thus marks an important step towards varying as well as cheapening book-production by the careful choice of type"; "the book contains a colophon which it is difficult to believe to have been written by anybody but the inventor of printing himself". A summary of the problem is to be found in (only in German): Andreas Venzke: Johannes Gutenberg – Der Erfinder des Buchdrucks und seine Zeit. Piper-Verlag, Munich, 2000. References Further reading (facsimile reprint) External links Balbi, Giovanni, d. 1298. Catholicon. [373] leaves. 40.4 cm. (fol.) From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress Latin dictionaries 1286 books 1460 books Incunabula 13th-century Latin books 15th-century Latin books