MOST SCANDALOUS BOOK A copy of the so-called Wicked Bible, printed in London in 1631.
It also confiscated thousands of copies of the Bible printed in Indonesia which used the word "Allah" for God.
The Gutenberg Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany, in the 1450s, was the first mass-produced book in history.
He translated the Bible from Greek into Romanian; and the Bible printed in 1688 by the Walachian prince Şerban Cantacuzino was based on his translation.
Mr. Scheide completed the rare-book grand slam late last year with his quiet, seven-figure purchase of a Mentelin Bible, printed by Johann Mentelin in 1460 in Strasbourg.
It was this Bible – printed unbound, for ease of distribution – which was given to the 54 scholars appointed by Archbishop Richard Bancroft to make yet another new translation in 1604.
Yet, Tuesday marked the end of an era as the industry bible printed its last daily edition, with a trademark headline written in the industry jargon it pioneered, jargon that would often leave outsiders scratching their heads.
The Bible printed by Gutenberg around 1455, in that wonderful blackletter whose spacing of exquisitely planed type had never been bettered, had broken the hold of the church and opened the way to modern commerce.
The Mentelin Bible, even rarer than the Gutenberg, joins a Gutenberg, the first major Western book printed from movable type, in 1455 in Mainz; a copy of what is known as the 36-Line Bible, printed in Bamberg in 1461, possibly by Albrecht Pfister; and, most beautiful, "The 1462 Bible," also printed in Mainz, by Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer.
The 100-millionth bible, printed last year, is displayed proudly in the lobby.Amity is the only publisher in China authorised to print bibles, leading to criticism that it is exploiting its monopoly status and low cost-base to make money in the export market.
