April 28, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1Gutenberg’s Blanks Even with a print run of fewer than 200 copies, the Gutenberg Bible was a major undertaking. A complete copy, like the Ransom Center’s, includes 1,277 large pages that have text printed on them. Each full page required that approximately 2,500 individual pieces of metal type be set by hand,… read more
March 19, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Research + TeachingPicturing the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries The Ransom Center’s Spring 2020 Stories to Tell exhibition features some of the earliest printed examples of illustrated English plays.
January 15, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Revealing an English Schoolmaster’s Piers Plowman Most of the books that came to The University of Texas at Austin as part of the John Henry Wrenn Library didn’t look like old books when they arrived in 1918 and still don’t look old now—not as old, at least, as the publication dates of the printed pages inside… read more
