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🔴 1457 Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer publish the Mainz Psalter, the first printed book with a complete date

🔴 1846 American naturalist Henry David Thoreau jailed for refusing to pay taxes

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #August14 #JohannFust #PeterSchoffer #HenryDavidThoreau

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 14 August 1457, the MAINZ PSALTER, the second book published using movable type, after the Gutenberg Bible, was completed by #JohannFust and #PeterSchoeffer, following their split from #JohannesGutenberg. Only 10 copies survive. Beautiful.