Kit Roberts ventures into the furthest reaches of The John Rylands Library as it celebrates its 125th birthday ...

Discover the world's most expensive books ever sold, from ancient manuscripts like the Codex Leicester to historic first editions such as the Gutenberg Bible and Shakespeare's First Folio. Explore the ...

In San Marino, the former home of a rail magnate has been transformed into a Californian temple of knowledge and botany. It's a place to explore at your own pace, amid rose gardens in full bloom and ...

The Huntington Library is renowned for several iconic pieces — the Gutenberg Bible, the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript and Shakespeare’s Folio, to name just a few. Visitors expect to see them ...

In 1921 a rare-book dealer in New York acquired a Gutenberg Bible, one of only about four dozen believed to exist at the time. The dealer, the Hungarian émigré Gabriel Wells, disassembled his ...

The Gutenberg Bible ranks among the most prized of rare books, but within three centuries of its printing around 1455, its version of Scripture was considered obsolete and its creator, Johannes ...

When railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington bought a rare edition of the Gutenberg Bible in 1911, he paid $55,000—the equivalent of around $1.8 million today. But despite the high price ...

The Gutenberg Bible from the Diocesan Museum in Pelpin is one of the most valuable and interesting preserved volumes in the world. In 1502, it was donated by Nicolaus Crapitz, the bishop of Warmia, to ...

The Bible, on display at the Medieval Art Gallery in Warsaw, was printed more than 570 years ago by Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press. It is one of the few preserved copies in ...

A Gutenberg Bible owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California, has enjoyed some exciting exploits in its 600-year history. It’s been owned by Silesian nobles, traded by a Scottish ...