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A list of the earliest printed books

A list of the earliest printed books in select languages. Movable metal type printing in Korea predates that of Gutenberg by a couple hundred years. See also the Wikipedia entry for movable type.

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This entry was published on March 30, 2007 at 11:55 am.

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