SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

[lludwig]

SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

2. What is the most valuable printed book?

Answer in invisible ink: 2. Was The Gutenberg Bible; now it is the Caxton Canterbury Tales

Note: I think a complete Gutenberg would beat the Canterbury if offered up to auction. However, the Caxton Canterbury is currently the most expensive printed book ever to change hands. 13 million? I forget.....

[oldbookshopnj]

Keep trying.

[professorbooknoodle]

Martin was sitting on the panel of judges? :_|;-):^O

[oldbookshopnj]

He wasn't the Queen's boyfriend either.

[professorbooknoodle]

They had already condemned him for something else?

[oldbookshopnj]

Keep trying.

[lludwig]

Martin wasn't "in country" so to speak re: death...

. . . he was found to be in consumption. In the hope of saving his life, Allen sent him to Paris, where he consulted the best physicians of the day, only to be told that the disease was past cure. He returned to Reims [France] to die, . . .

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09727a.htm

[oldbookshopnj]

Martin lived in Douai (France) and was the principal translator of the the Douai-Rheims Bible.

William Carter was beatified in 1987.

[oldbookshopnj]

565. The last printer executed in England on account of a work he had published was a young man about 18 years old. Who was he, and what did he publish?

[ok-mrs-bee]

The last execution of a printer in England would take place in 1720, when an eighteen-year-old apprentice named John Matthews would be executed for printing ...

John Matthews, an 18 year old printer, was hanged for high treason for publisheing a pamphlet, Vox Populi, Vox Dei, which said the Pretender to the English throne had a legitimate claim. Two apprentices had tattled on him. When one apprentice died, a huge crowd a huge crowd of printers and editors came to the funeral to insult his body.

Press Freedoms By Louis Edward Ingelhart

[ok-mrs-bee]

In the second para, the transcription errors are mine.

[oldbookshopnj]

565. Matthews was the one I was looking for.

[oldbookshopnj]

566. The first stories published by this English novelist were pseudonymous, and used the name of a famous American Puritan as the author's first and middle names.

One of the author's most famous books is a biography of an English female author who used a man's name as a pseudonym.

Who is the author and what was the pseudonym?

[satnrose]

567. What was the biggest book burning of the Renaissance, and who did it?

[elynslibrary]

Savonarola - 1497 - Bonfire of the Vanities

Evil man!!

[satnrose]

Yes, as an answer to 567.



Anybody got an answer to 566 yet?