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Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![142 Blades (Wm.) A Catalogue of Books printed by (or ascribed to the press of) Wm. Caxton, in which is included the press-mark of every copy contained in the Library of the British Museum, half morocco, presentation copy from the author, with inscription on jfly- leaf sm. 4to. ' Privately printed, 1865 143 Blades (Wm.) Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England’s First Printer, jine paper, facsimiles, antique cloth, uncut 8vo. Tribner, 1877 144 Bliss Library. Sale Catalogue of the Extensive, Interesting and Valu- able Library of the Rev. Philip Bliss, D.C.L. Sold by Auction by Sotheby, LARGE AND FINE PAPER, roxburghe roy. 8vo. Sotheby, 1858 145 Boecaccio (Joannes) [De praeclaris mulieribus], begins ( ) “Ridie mulierz egregia paululi ab ierti vulgo semotuz & &@ ceteris fere solutuz curis 1 eximia mulieribus sexus laudem,” etc. lit. goth. long lines, 35 toa full page, 84 ll. without marks, the first blank [HAIn, *3327], raubricated throughout, capitals painted in red, ornamental pen initial on first page, 2 xylographic cuts inserted ; crushed crimson morocco plain, gilt inside lines, g.e. by Thompson, enclosed in a new blue morocco slip case, FINE COPY “ Kaplicit compendii Johanis Boccacti de Certaldo quod de preclaris mulieribus ac fama Ppetuam edidit feliciter,” s.a. l. etn. Impr.| Argent. Geo. Husner, c. 1475] *,* VERY RARE. Pen-and-ink signatures have been written-in in an old hand, perhaps by the printer himself. The Lives include one of Pope Joan. 146 Boccaccto (GIOVANNI). “ BOCCACE DE LA GENEALOGIE DES DIEUX,” lettres batardes, printed in double columns, with 45 large and small spirited woodcuts, crushed brown morocco plain, inside dentelles, g. e. by Chambolle-Duru, in open solander case folio. Imprime nouvellemét &@ Paris La mil CCCC quatre vigtz & dixhuit le neufiesme jour De Fevrier pour Anthoine Verard, etc. 1498 *,* A VERY FINE AND-PERFECP COPY OF THIS VERY RARE and interest- ing work; so remarkable for its spirited early French woodcuts, some of which are most singular representations of the Pagan Deities. 147 Boccaccio (Giov.) Il Philocolo di M. Giovanni Boccaccio nuovamente revisto, title in red letters within ornamental woodcut borders, with head of Boccaccio in centre, cut on reverse of last leaf, calf gilt, g. e. (Lewis); from the Beckford library, scarce edition 8v0. Vinegia, Nic. di Aristotile detto Zoppino, 15380 148 Bodemann (Ed.) Xylographische & Typographische Incunabel der koniglichen 6ffentlichen Bibliothek zu Hannover, 41 jacsimiles of block books, early typography and woodcuts, original boards 4to. Hannover, 1866 149 Bodoni. Manuale Tipografico del Cav. Giambattista Bodoni, ounts of types used in the Bodoni Press, fine portrait after A. Appiani, by Rosaspina, 2 vol. old calf 4to. Parma presso la Vedova, 1818](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31666206_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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