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How old is the first book?

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Anonymous

7y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

The earliest manuscripts were not books, but clay tablets and later scrolls of papyrus and parchment. The binding into books of hand-cut, hand-written pages continued through the Middle Ages in various monasteries. The earliest PRINTED books date from the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg around 1436.

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7y ago

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