alleryAbout how many copies of Gutenberg's first printed Bible were produced?
- 1,800
- 80
- 18
- 180
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Correct answer: D. 180
Gutenberg's first printed book, the Bible, was produced in about 180 copies over three years.
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About how many copies of Gutenberg's first printed Bible were produced?Read the answer and worked solution →Between which years did printing presses spread to most countries of Europe?Read the answer and worked solution →How many printed copies flooded European markets in the second half of the fifteenth century?Read the answer and worked solution →What name is given to the shift from hand printing to mechanical printing?Read the answer and worked solution →How many characters of the Roman alphabet did Gutenberg cast metal types for?Read the answer and worked solution →Which existing machine provided the model for Gutenberg's printing press?Read the answer and worked solution →What did printers publish to reach people who could not read?Read the answer and worked solution →Before print, reading was mainly restricted to which group?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did Martin Luther write his Ninety Five Theses?Read the answer and worked solution →How many copies of Luther's New Testament translation sold within a few weeks?Read the answer and worked solution →How did Martin Luther describe printing?Read the answer and worked solution →What was the occupation of Menocchio, the Italian who reinterpreted the Bible?Read the answer and worked solution →From which year did the Roman Church maintain an Index of Prohibited Books?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Latin scholar and Catholic reformer feared that the flood of printed works harmed learning?Read the answer and worked solution →By the end of the eighteenth century, literacy rates in some parts of Europe reached what range?Read the answer and worked solution →What were the cheap pocket-size books sold by travelling pedlars in England called?Read the answer and worked solution →What were the low-priced French books bound in cheap blue covers called?Read the answer and worked solution →From which century did the periodical press develop?Read the answer and worked solution →Which London publisher wrote in 1791 that book sales had grown prodigiously?Read the answer and worked solution →Which three groups became new readers in 19th-century Europe?Read the answer and worked solution →Between which years was the Penny Magazine published in England?Read the answer and worked solution →For which readers was the English Penny Magazine aimed primarily?Read the answer and worked solution →Which brothers compiled German folk tales that were published as a collection in 1812?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was a press devoted only to children's literature set up in France?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Yorkshire mechanic read old newspapers by firelight because he could not afford candles?Read the answer and worked solution →How many sheets per hour could Richard M. Hoe's power-driven cylindrical press print?Read the answer and worked solution →Which press developed in the late nineteenth century could print up to six colours at a time?Read the answer and worked solution →What were the cheap popular book series sold in England in the 1920s called?Read the answer and worked solution →Which twentieth-century addition, also called the book jacket, shielded a book?Read the answer and worked solution →What cheaper format did publishers adopt during the Great Depression of the 1930s to sustain sales?Read the answer and worked solution →
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Between which years did printing presses spread to most countries of Europe?
- 1550 and 1650
- 1450 and 1550
- 1600 and 1700
- 1350 and 1450
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Correct answer: B. 1450 and 1550
Presses were set up in most European countries during the hundred years from 1450 to 1550.
How many printed copies flooded European markets in the second half of the fifteenth century?
- 2 million
- 20 million
- 200 million
- 2 billion
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Correct answer: B. 20 million
Once presses multiplied, about 20 million copies circulated in Europe in that period.
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