PROTOTYPOGRAPHY. 581 



will be sufficient to say, that the great Bible soon saw the light. 

 A sense of what was due to Gutenberg seems to have led the pub- 

 lishers to abstain from claiming the merit of the performance. It 

 made its appearance without date or name of printer in the coloj)hon ; 

 but it has since been universally known as Gutenberg's Bible. In 

 modern times it is sometimes spoken of as the Mazarin Bible, from the 

 particular copy of it discovered in the library of Cardinal Mazarin, 

 which attracted the especial attention of bibliographers. Subsequent 

 editions of the same work, not quite equal in grandeur and finish to 

 the first, have appended to them the names of Fust and Schoefiei', as 

 the printers conjointly. John Schoefier, the son of Peter, and his 

 successor as the head of the printing establishment, which long 

 contiiiued to flourish, frankly declaimed in a Dedicatory Epistle to the 

 Emperor Maximilian of Germany, which he prefixed to an edition of 

 Livy, that the whole merit of the fused metal types then come into 

 use among printers everywhere was due to Gutenberg, and not to 

 his father. 



It is consolatory to find that Gutenberg was not crushed. In 

 conjunction with one Nummeister, he established a press at May- 

 ence, and issued works of importance. In 1465 the Archbishop of 

 Mayence, Prince Adolphus of Nassau, made him one of the pensioned 

 attaches of his household ; and within the friendly walls of the 

 archiepiscopal palace he breathed his last in 1468. This prince- 

 archbishop was not desired by the people of Mayence, and he was 

 obliged to oust, by force of arms, another ai'chbishop already in 

 possession, placed there by an anti-pope. In the process, the city was 

 sacked, and all the industries of the place broken up, especially those 

 connected with the printing-press. Adolphus may have wished to 

 make some reparation for the ruin which he was the means of 

 bringing on the city, by shewing kindness to the illustrious inventor, 

 Gutenberg's remains were deposited in the Church of the Franciscans 

 at Mayence. As to Fust, he died of the plague at Paris in 1466, at 

 the age of 72, whilst on one of his business expeditions to that city 

 in connection with the sale of his books. The stories of his unfavour- 

 able reception in Paris, and of attempts to palm ofi" his Bibles as 

 manuscripts, are now known to be groundless. The place of his 

 sepulture in Paris was the Church of St. Victor. 



On parting company with the four personages whose names are 

 associated with the very first beginnings of the art of printing, it will 



