JOHN GUTENBERG, _First Master Printer,_ His Acts, and most remarkable Discourses, and his Death. FROM THE GERMAN, BY C. O. W. JOHN GUTENBERG, _First Master Printer,_ His Acts, and most remarkable Discourses, and his Death. FROM THE GERMAN, BY C. W. LONDON: TRÜBNER AND CO. 60, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1860. _Only One Hundred Copies Printed._ CONTENTS. Page CHAPTER I. As how John Fust, master printer in the city of Maïence, gave his daughter Christine to wife to Peter Schoeffer his partner, and what came of it 3 CHAPTER II. What John Gutenberg, master printer, said, and what he did, while Peter Schoeffer was taking to wife the demoiselle Christine; all which should interest the reader 27 CHAPTER III. Who John Gutenberg found in his dwelling when he came back to it, and what conversation he there held with the little Parisian 49 CHAPTER IV. How two Crosiers being engaged in a quarrel, the poor people of Maïence were the sufferers, and Master John Gutenberg in particular 69 CHAPTER V. The Lord Archbishop Adolfe of Nassau having bethought him of John Gutenberg, the printer, causes a search to be made for him by one of his horsemen, who finds him in a fisherman’s hut 88 CHAPTER VI. Death of John Gutenberg. Reader, pray for the repose of his soul: his poor remains sleep in an unknown tomb 108 JOHN GUTENBERG. CHAPTER I. _As how John Fust, master printer in the city of Maïence, gave his daughter Christine to wife to Peter Schoeffer his partner, and what came of it._ A wedding! how much joy is contained in that word! but even more in the thing itself! You, however, who live in these days, can hardly form an idea of what a wedding was in the good old times, for you possess only the shadow, and even that is of the palest hue. Guests, among whom the husband and the minister appear dressed in black from head to foot, a large room furnished in the modern style, a very prosaic square table, on which, after the marriage contract is signed, the repast is served up, the whole accompanied with the stalest and most common-place compliments, the coldest ceremonies.... No, no! a fig for your modern weddings!