A magnificent copy of Gutenberg's Bible, not dated, but supposed to have
been printed about 1455, fresh and clean as if it had just come from the
hands of the men of the New Craft, carefully set at their work, was
bought for the very small sum of £100. It is exhibited in the first
glass case in the Library. This is the edition often called the
_Mazarine Bible_, from the circumstance that the first copy which
obtained notice was found in the Mazarine Library at Paris.