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W idmungsblatt
aus dem Guten
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A dedication
from the Guten
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Kramer
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IÜ rU was the year in which the fourth Guten
berg centenary was widely celebrated. Three years
prior to the Jubilee, a monument executed by Thor-
waldsen had been erected to Gutenberg in Mainz,
the inventor's birthplace; a replica of the same was
set up in Leipzig. In Frankfurt-on-Main a huge model
of the Gutenberg Monument was displayed; on its
base are to be seen the figures of the inventor and
his two Mainz partners, Fust and Schöffer. Scores of
Jubilee programmes, poems and souvenirs were print
ed. Small statues of Gutenberg in plaster and china
were on sale at all local fairs; even pipe-bowls, jars,
cups adorned with Gutenberg's likeness had a vogue.
Nor did the "Typographische Jubilaumskanaster",
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