Thanks but this only deals in small part with the Gutenberg theft, if
you could still send me the Harvard article at your convenience.
Ken
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From: Exlibris [mailto:EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME] On Behalf Of judy bausch
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:35 PM
To: EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME
Subject: Re: [EXLIBRIS] Librarians and dust - [re: Gutenberg's weighty
volumes]
google is our friend: www.museum-security.org/booktheft.html
>I think HARVARD MAGAZINE has a copyright on the
>article. Otherwise, I'd send my copy all
>around. Maybe the magazine has an online
>archive? It is a great story, with one of the
>great brain-cramps in criminal history. Luckily
>for the thief, he fell on the Bible, and not
>vice-versa.
>
>EW
>
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>From: Exlibris [mailto:EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME]On Behalf Of Jacowitz,
>Kenneth
>Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 10:06 AM
>To: EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME
>Subject: Re: [EXLIBRIS] Librarians and dust - [re: Gutenberg's weighty
>volumes]
>
>
>What a great story!
>
>Does anyone have access to "The Gutenberg Caper," HARVARD MAGAZINE,
>March-April 1986, pp. 42-48.?
>
>Unless you want to share this with what I'm sure would be a greatful
>list, please email me at keneth.jacowitz@abc.com. Fax would be fine,
>or pdf, your choice. Thanks.
>
>Ken jacowitz
>
>
>
>
>
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>From: Exlibris [mailto:EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME] On Behalf Of White, Eric
>Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 10:59 AM
>To: EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME
>Subject: Re: [EXLIBRIS] Librarians and dust - [re: Gutenberg's weighty
>volumes]
>
>
>Colleagues,
>
>When the Harvard copy of the Gutenberg Bible was stolen momentarily in
>1969, and the thief exiting the 4th floor window of Widener fell from
>his escape rope (having forgotten to calculate the added weight of the
>volumes), it was reported that the volumes in the their massive modern
>bindings reportedly weighed "30 or 35 pounds apiece." The whole story
>is in W.H. Bond, "The Gutenberg Caper," HARVARD MAGAZINE, March-April
>1986, pp. 42-48.
>
>Eric White
>Bridwell Library
>
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>From: Exlibris [mailto:EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME]On Behalf Of Martin
>Davies
>Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 11:52 AM
>To: EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME
>Subject: Re: [EXLIBRIS] Librarians and dust - the future
>
>
>Lugging a paper B42 (the cheap trade edition) to the photocopier was no
>hard task. But I couldn't carry both volumes of the BL vellum copy
>(Grenville)
>even in my prime, say, oh, ten years ago. But then the BL didn't hire
>incunabulists for their brawn. Alas, I never weighed the Grenville copy
>-- a
>descriptive element strangely wanting in all incunable catalogues.
>
>mcd
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Klappholz" <d.klappholz@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
>To: <EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME>
>Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 5:11 PM
>Subject: Re: [EXLIBRIS] Librarians and dust - the future
>
>
>> At 11:57 AM 1/28/2006, s cheiner wrote:
>>>As for the 40 pound lifting requirement, I find that a
>>> legal size box filled with coated-stock paper weighs
>>>in at around 40 pounds. I haven't pulled my Gutenberg
>>>Bible volumes from the vault yet to see how much each
>>>of them weighs - does any one already know the answer
>>>to this to save me the trouble?
>>
>> WHEW!!! I finally I have a serious, albeit imprecise, contribution
>> to make to this list.
>>
>> Having moved one volume of a 42-line Bible from a table, back into
>> its home vault, but not having weighed it along the way, I'd
>> guesstimate
>that
>> it weighed 15-20 lbs., so the complete Bible would likely weigh
>> 30-40
>lbs.
>> ... but I should admit that I don't recall if the other volume
>appeared to
>> be thinner, the same thickness as, or thicker than the volume I
>carried.
>>
>> Regards
>> Dave